#aaron lansky

[the-knights-who-say-book]

“...the museum’s small library had been overwhelmed by the donation of almost ten-thousand Yiddish books from a declining commune of left-wing Jewish chicken farmers in nearly Petaluma.”

---> sentences you love to see in a book

Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky

[the-knights-who-say-book]

I once received a call from the widow of a distinguished Yiddish writer. Many years before, her husband had had a political falling out with [writer] Sholem Asch... Asch had now been dead for forty years, her husband nearly ten years, and still the widow couldn't give it up. "Mr. Lahnsky," she said on the phone, "I have the most wonderful news. I just read a memoir... and I want you to hear what the writer had to say. I quote: 'I used to get up early in the morning to have more hours in the day to hate Sholem Asch.' I ask you, have you ever heard a more beautiful passage?"

Aaron Lansky, Outwitting History

Little stories about old Jews holding nonsensical grudges is the only genre I want to read right now

[librarienne]

Currently Reading: Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky

[kcpdf]

Jones Library Samuel Minot Jones Awards | Massachusetts Event Photography

Jones Library Samuel Minot Jones Awards | Massachusetts Event Photography

I recently had the opportunity to do a little Massachusetts event photography in Amherst, MA.  The Jones Library in Amherst hosted their second annual Sammy Awards at the Yiddish Book Center on the Hampshire College Campus.  Amazingly, I had never been to the Yiddish Book Center before, so getting to photograph an event here was a real treat.  Luckily, my assistant for the evening, Becky, is not…

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