Outwitting History
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1565125134
ISBN 13
9781565125131
Category
Main Library
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Description
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. - from Amzon
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1
