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Outwitting History

✍ Scribed by Lansky, Aaron

Book ID: 109116572
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 193 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781565126367

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✦ Synopsis

"Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important." --Library Journal, starred review
"A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations." --The New York Post

"What 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." --The Boston Globe
"Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book." --The Sunday Oregonian
As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history." In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories...

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