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The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Paperback)♥ Add to Wishlist

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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 ... more

     

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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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      • Media: Paperback Book, 316 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Sep. 30th, 2005)
      • ISBN-10: 1565125134
      • ISBN-13: 9781565125131
      • Dimensions: 5.54 x 8.40 x 0.96 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.01 lbs
      • Categories: and Reading Literary Criticism General Jewish History

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