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Outwitting History

Outwitting History

Author: Aaron Lansky

Publisher: Algonquin Books

ISBN: 9781565126367

Category: History

Page: 328

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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. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children, only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works. Lansky’s passion led him to travel from house to house collecting the books—and the stories of these Jewish refugees and the vibrant intellectual world they inhabited. He and a team of volunteers salvaged books from dusty attics, crumbling basements, demolition sites, and dumpsters. When they began, scholars thought that fewer than seventy thousand Yiddish books existed. In fact, Lansky’s project would go on to save over 1.5 million volumes, from famous writers like Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer to one-of-a-kind Soviet prints. This true account of his journey is both “extraordinary” (The Boston Globe) and “entertaining” (Los Angeles Times). “Lansky charmingly describes his adventures as president and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, which now has new headquarters at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. To Lansky, Yiddish literature represented an important piece of Jewish cultural history, a link to the past and a memory of a generation lost to the Holocaust. Lansky’s account of salvaging books is both hilarious and moving, filled with Jewish humor, conversations with elderly Jewish immigrants for whom the books evoke memories of a faraway past, stories of desperate midnight rescues from rain-soaked dumpsters, and touching accounts of Lansky’s trips to what were once thriving Jewish communities in Europe. The book is a testimony to his love of Judaism and literature and his desire to make a difference in the world.” —Publishers Weekly
Outwitting History
Language: en
Pages: 328

Outwitting History

Authors: Aaron Lansky
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-02 - Publisher: Algonquin Books

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Language: en
Pages: 48

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Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
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Read On...History
Language: en
Pages: 195

Read On...History

Authors: Tina Frolund
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-21 - Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Make history come alive! This book helps librarians and teachers as well as readers themselves find books they will enjoy—titles that will animate and explain the past, entertain, and expand their minds.
Taking Stock
Language: en
Pages: 272

Taking Stock

Authors: Michal Kravel-Tovi, Deborah Dash Moore
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-27 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Language: en
Pages: 400

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Authors: Peter Manseau
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-18 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Itsik Malpesh was born the son of a goose-plucking factory manager during the Russian pogroms - his life saved on the night it began by the young daughter of a kosher slaughterer. Or so he believes… Exiled during the war, Itsik eventually finds himself in New York, working as a

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