Aaron Lansky: 1 book
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
This true story of a quest to save Jewish literature is “a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world” (The Boston Globe).
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature—the physical remnant of Yiddish culture—was on the verge of extinction....
