(Nonfiction, 328 pp. 2005)
In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student set out to rescue abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Filled with poignant and often humorous anecdotes from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants, Outwitting History also shows how an almost-lost culture of Yiddish writers was preserved by the founding of the National Yiddish Book Center.
- “National Yiddish Book Center“ from Wikipedia
- National Yiddish Book Center website
- Essay by Aaron Lansky, “Flip Side: the Yiddish Book Center’s Next Great Adventure,” September 2011
