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The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

By Sue Macy
Illustrators Illustrated by Stacy Innerst Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Paula Wiseman ISBN

9781481472203

Awards and Honors CPL Best Books - 2019
Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner - 2020

The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism

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.



Author’s note. Illustrator’s note. Yiddish glossary. Suggestions for further information. Source notes. Full-color illustrations rendered in acrylic and gouache, with fabric textures added digitally.
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