The Book Rescuer : : how a Mensch From Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
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Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written in Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's finding more every day.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781481472203
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Innerst, Stacy.
SUBJECTS
Lansky, Aaron, -- 1955-
National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) -- History.
Book collectors -- New Bedford -- Biography.
Jewish men -- New Bedford -- Biography.
Yiddish language -- Revival.