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The Book Rescuer - How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (Hardcover)
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The Book Rescuer - How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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Recipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers An ALA
Notable Book A Bank Street Best Book of the Year "Text and
illustration meld beautifully." --The New York Times "Stunning."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Inspired...[a] journalistic,
propulsive narrative." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The
story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art."
--Booklist (starred review) From New York Times Best Illustrated
Book artist Stacy Innerst and author Sue Macy comes a story of one
man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books in their
Sydney Taylor Book Award-winning masterpiece. Over the last forty
years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around
musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of
this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found
plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written Yiddish, the
language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking
for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000
still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant
recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's
finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of
Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual
to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of
identity and immigration.
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