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Outwitting History
by Aaron Lansky
(Algonquin Books, 2004)
Filled with inspiring and hilarious tales, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books is a riveting story about Aaron Lansky’s travels as he and a team of volunteers crisscrossed America, retrieving Yiddish books from dusty attics, crumbling basements, and dumpsters. With 75,000 copies now in print, it is a collective love song to brilliant Yiddish writers -- from Mendele to Sholem Aleichem to I.B. Singer -- and their lasting cultural relevance.
"A rollicking, readable account of one man's passion and the difference it made."
-- Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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 Listen to an audio excerpt of Aaron Lansky reading selections from Outwitting History live at the National Yiddish Book Center. (21 minutes, MP3, 4.71 MB) *
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