Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books Paperback – 2 September 2005

&;Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.&; &;Library Journal, starred review &;A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.&; &;The New York Post      &;What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque romp, a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world.&; &;The Boston Globe &;Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book.&; &;The Sunday Oregonian As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world&;s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called &;the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history.&; In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country collecting books. Introducing us to a dazzling array of writers, he shows us how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the old world and the future&;and how the written word can unite everyone who believes in the power of great literature.A Library Journal Best Book A Massachusetts Book Award Winner in Nonfiction An ALA Notable Book

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