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Lansky, Aaron

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Lansky, Aaron (1955– )

US cultural activist. As founder of the National Yiddish Book Center in South Hadley, Massachusetts (1980), he rescued some 850,000 discarded Yiddish books in an effort to preserve and revitalize Yiddish culture. Lansky was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated from Hampshire College in 1977, and gained an MA from McGill University in 1980. A winner of many awards from Jewish organizations, he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.
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