Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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Book
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ISBN 10
1565124294
ISBN 13
9781565124295
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NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
2004
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Pages
328
Subject
Lansky, Aaron, 1955- -- Contributions in Yiddish language. National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) -- History. Book collecting. Yiddish imprints.
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Abstract
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own children had no use for Outwitting History also explores brilliant Yiddish writers and enables us to see how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the Old World and the future.
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