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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/aaron-lansky/outwitting_history.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/aaron-lansky/outwitting_history_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Outwitting History" alt ="Outwitting History"/></a><br//>This true story of a quest to save Jewish literature is "a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world" (The Boston Globe).<BR /> <BR /> In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature&#8212;the physical remnant of Yiddish culture&#8212;was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children, only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works.<BR /> <BR /> Lansky's passion led him to travel from house to house collecting the books&#8212;and the stories of these Jewish refugees and the vibrant intellectual world they inhabited. He and a team of volunteers salvaged books from dusty attics, crumbling basements, demolition sites, and dumpsters. When they began, scholars thought that fewer than seventy thousand...]]></description>
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