Shabbat Reading: Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History

#whatireadovershabbat Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History: The Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Algonquin Books, 2004)

Yiddish is dying, long live Yiddish! Aaron Lansky, founder of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, shares with us, in this hilarious and moving memoir, his adventures rescuing Yiddish books from the oblivion demographics seems to promise them. But books aren’t the real heart of this story: people are. Behind every book Lansky and his colleagues rescue is a human life. Their stories will make you laugh and cry and wonder.