Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation by Aaron Lansky

Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation

Aaron Lansky

326 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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"In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish...

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