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

Outwitting History

The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

By
Aaron Lansky
Aaron Lansky
2005 • 328 pages

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378 books

Non Fiction

blueskygreentrees
Blue sky, green trees.
The Borgias
Medici: Story of a European Dynasty
High Tide in Tucson
History of Pi
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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200 books

Non Fiction

SettingShadow
Becca
Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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68 books

Autobiographical

SettingShadow
Becca
The Game
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Julie & Julia
The Doctor Stories
My Own Country
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Self-Made Man

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38 books

Judaism

SettingShadow
Becca
The Diary of a Young Girl
A Thread of Grace
The Chosen
Broken for You

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1,728 books

Ready

Pierke
Pierke
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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1,840 books

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Pierke
Pierke
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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1,113 books

Prologue

Pierke
Pierke
C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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26 books

Book Publishing Reading

Pierke
Pierke
The Diary of a Bookseller
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
The Enchanted Hour
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
Boekenwurmen & ander ongedierte
84, Charing Cross Road

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114 books

Authors Language Literature

Pierke
Pierke
The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
Daphne
C. S. Lewis - A Life
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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65 books

Jewish History

Pierke
Pierke
Edith's Story: The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
The Family
The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

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491 books

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CaitSupporter
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Priceless: She's Worth Fighting For
Eeny Meeny
It Starts With Food
The Nightingale
Six of Crows

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256 books

Non Fiction

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CaitSupporter
Passport through darkness
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
Unite or Die
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

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26 books

Yiddish

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Hanna
A dangerous woman
A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New
Sinister Wisdom 29-30: The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology
Born to Kvetch
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
The Dream of a Common Language, Poems 1974-1977
Words on Fire