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Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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By Aaron Lansky
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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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"A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations."New York Post
- On Sale
- Oct 5, 2004
- Page Count
- 328 pages
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781565124295
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