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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
Sales Rank: 305271
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List Price: $24.95
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on 9-16-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 328 pages
Published by: Algonquin Books October 5, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1565124294
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1565124295
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Reader Reviews
Outwitting History works well on several different levels. Judging from some of the other reviews here, if you've ever studied or spoken Yiddish, or know people who do, you'll find this story interesting. But if, like me, you don't know any Yiddish other than schmaltz and oy ve, and you aren't even Jewish, you can still enjoy Lansky's tale of saving hundreds of thousands of books and helping to preserve the history of what may be a dying language. As a college student, Lansky started salvaging Yiddish books that were being discarded. As word got around that someone was willing to shlep old books away, he became inundated with people cleaning out their libraries and libraries who couldn't use the books any longer. Lansky nudged a couple of friends to help him and it turned into a full time job, taking his unreliable pickup truck all over the East Coast and beyond to pick up cartons of books at all hours. Often when Lansky and his helpers arrived, there was a smorgasbord of food waiting for them and the person giving away the books usually had some tales to tell about how they acquired the books, or about what it was like to be Jewish immigrants in New York sixty or seventy years ago. In exchange for the books, Lansky and his friends got an education in a fascinating slice of American twentieth century history. After some twenty-five years of book salvaging, Lansky has a million and a half volumes stored in his National Yiddish Book Center. Although Yiddish is no longer the first language of many, thanks in part to Lansky, many people are rediscovering its literature and culture.
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