Aaron Lansky
Aaron Lansky (born June 17, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts)[1][2] is the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work.
Lansky is the author of Outwitting History (2004), an autobiographical account of how he saved the Yiddish books of the world, from the 1970s to the present day. It won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award.[3]
Education[]
Lansky graduated from Hampshire College in 1977 with a B.A. in modern Jewish history, and went on to a graduate program in East European Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal.[2]
Notes[]
- ^ Aaron Lansky. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Aaron Lansky, founder and president". Yiddish Book Center. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
- ^ "Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books A Reading and Discussion Guide" (PDF). The Massachusetts Center for the Book. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 8, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
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