Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books - Couverture rigide

Lansky, Aaron

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ISBN 10 : 1565124294 ISBN 13 : 9781565124295

Editeur : Algonquin Books, 2004

Synopsis

Outwitting History The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1980, an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. A twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. When Lansky started out, experts believed that fewer than 70,000 Yiddish language books still existed, he has now saved over 1.5 million books. As he takes us along on his groundbreaking journey, Lansky explores the roots of the Yiddish language and introduces us to the brilliant Yiddish writers - from Mendele to Sholem Aleichem to Issac Bashevis Singer - whose lasting cultural relevance is evident on every page.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Algonquin Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1565124294
• ISBN 13: 9781565124295
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 328