Aaron Lansky
Autor von Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Über den Autor
Aaron Lansky is the founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
Bildnachweis: Photo by Patricia Williams, courtesy of the National Yiddish Book Center
Werke von Aaron Lansky
Zugehörige Werke
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (2019) — Nachwort — 108 Exemplare
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1955
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Massachusetts, USA
- Ausbildung
- Hampshire College (BA|1977)
- Berufe
- Yiddish
- Organisationen
- National Yiddish Book Center (founder, president)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- MacArthur Fellowship (1989)
- Kurzbiographie
- Aaron Lansky and his family live in western Massachusetts.
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Listen
Auszeichnungen
Dir gefällt vielleicht auch
Nahestehende Autoren
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 3
- Auch von
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 983
- Beliebtheit
- #26,196
- Bewertung
- 4.3
- Rezensionen
- 39
- ISBNs
- 14
- Sprachen
- 2
- Favoriten
- 3
I just read this for a second time for a bookgroup. I had to, it had been my nomination. As much as I liked it the first time, I might have liked it even more on this second reading. Lansky did a great job with his book rescue and he did a great job with this book. I just finished writing my own book about my father that I based on his memories that he wrote for me some years ago. My parents didn't speak Yiddish at home; they spoke Polish. We never went to synagogue, we didn't celebrate the high holidays -- we didn't even celebrate Chanukah and the only time we ever had a seder at our house (we always went to friends) my mother served shrimp on the salad. But I always knew we were Jewish. How can you not when all the family, except my parents, was murdered in the Holocaust? This time around I enjoyed the whole book again, from start to finish, but I found some of his comments at the end, of what it means to be Jewish, more meaningful.
This is the story of the rescue of a million Yiddish books. In the process of the rescue, Lansky met many fascinating and interesting people and ate some wonderful food, in great quantities. I laughed, I cried, and I learned quite a bit about my own, Jewish history and culture. I recommend the book for anyone who is interesting in books, culture, languages, modern Jewish history, deli food....
See my blog for more thoughts on the book:
http://beyondthepale-dvora.blogspot.com/2012/01/roots.html… (mehr)