Overview
āA marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.ā āThe New York Post
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āWhat 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.ā āThe Boston Globe
āEvery now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book.ā āThe Sunday Oregonian
As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the worldās abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called āthe greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history.ā 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 futureāand 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
This book title, Outwitting History (The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books), ISBN: 9781565125131, by Aaron Lansky, published by Algonquin Books (September 2, 2005) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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