Books He rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he will have time to read some. Aaron Lansky rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books — a trove that evolved into the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, one of the nation’s leading Jewish cultural institutions. The Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, Mass., on Feb. 12, 2024, which is housed in a 10-acre complex at Hampshire College, is also a bookstore and a storehouse. Jillian Freyer/The New York Times Aaron Lansky was a young graduate student in Montreal in the late 1970s when he had an epiphany that changed the course of his...
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