Aaron Lansky

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (2005)

Shmegegee, shmuck, putz, meshugana…this is the Yiddish I grew up around, a Yiddish that permeated many Jewish households on Long Island. Until I was a teenager, I didn't know that my father could speak Yiddish. I didn’t know anybody could speak Yiddish, that it was a full language with verbs and ...