Word: annexations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aaron Lansky glances at the forest of jammed bookshelves surrounding him: "The word for it is hemshekh -- a continuity. This is from the world Hitler tried to destroy." Lansky, the executive director of the National Yiddish Book Center, is standing in the center's annex in Holyoke, Mass. There, on the vast, hangarlike floor of a renovated paper factory, are stored about 700,000 of the 900,000 Yiddish books that the center has collected...
...world's largest supplier of out-of-print Yiddish books. A Korean academic who lives in Tokyo orders his books from the center's office, which occupies a century-old brick schoolhouse in Amherst only four blocks from Emily Dickinson's home and 15 miles from the Holyoke annex. So do readers -- tenured or not -- in such places as Guam, Thailand and Brooklyn...