Outwitting History

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Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky is a book about Lansky and his book saving adventures. At age 23 Lansky read that in North America, thousands of the few remaining Yiddish books were being discarded by the children of those who had possessed the books. Though the previous owners (or the owners before them or the owners before them and so on) of the books had been able to speak the language but the current owners of the books could not speak the language. Lansky, feeling compelled to preserve the language, issued a public appeal for unwanted Yiddish books. Lansky received a very large amount of responses and set out, with a team of volunteers, to retrieve and store the remaining Yiddish books.

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[edit] Aaron Lansky's accomplishments

Today Aaron Lansky is the president of the National Yiddish Book Center, which holds more than 15 million Yiddish books. In 1985 Lansky received a MacArthur Fellowship for all the effort he contributed to saving Yiddish books.

Outwitting History won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award.[1]

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  1. ^ http://www.massbook.org/reading_guides/Outwitting%20History%20discussion%20guide2%20PDF.pdf


[edit] Sources

  • Muse magazine March 2007 Volume 11, Number 3

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