(JNS.org) The Russian government, which has refused to return a collection of more than 4,000 Jewish religious books and manuscripts dubbed the “Schneerson collection” to the New York-based Chabad-Lubavitch descendants of the collection’s last private owner, this week agreed to give part of the collection to the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. The government of the former Soviet Union found and kept the collections after World War One. Although a U.S. judge in January ordered Russia to pay $50,000 a day until the manuscripts were turned over to Chabad, Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering the matter closed. “I hope that moving the Schneerson library to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center… will put an end to this problem once and for all,” Putin said Thursday while visiting the museum to launch the new exhibition, according to Reuters.