Book: Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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 Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, just twenty-three, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works.
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