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About Aaron Lansky
- Aaron Lansky (born June 17, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications.
- He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work.
- Lansky is the author of Outwitting History (2004), an autobiographical account of how he saved the Yiddish books of the world, from the 1970s to the present day.
- It won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award.
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