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The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come
- Title
- The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come / written by Sue Macy ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
- Author
- Macy, Sue
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 20-1218 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Innerst, Stacy
- Description
- 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
- Summary
- 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 in 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.
- Subject
- Lansky, Aaron, 1955- > Juvenile literature
- Lansky, Aaron, 1955-
- National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) > History > Juvenile literature
- National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.)
- Book collectors > Massachusetts > New Bedford > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Jewish men > Massachusetts > New Bedford > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Yiddish language > Revival > Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Judaism
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Books & Libraries
- Book collectors
- Jewish men
- Yiddish language > Revival
- Massachusetts > New Bedford
- Genre/Form
- Picture books.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Note
- "A Paula Wiseman Book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 47).
- Audience (note)
- Ages 4-8.
- Grade K to 3.
- Call Number
- JFF 20-1218
- ISBN
- 9781481472203
- 1481472208
- 9781481472210 (canceled/invalid)
- 1481472216 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018040581
- OCLC
- 1050456670
- Author
- Macy, Sue, author.
- Title
- The book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come / written by Sue Macy ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Ages 4-8.Grade K to 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 47).
- Added Author
- Innerst, Stacy, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 20-1218