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

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).

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 immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children, only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, a twe...