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 | | He was just a college student taking Yiddish in the mid-1970s at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who despaired at the lack of books available in the 1,000-year-old language of the Jews of Eastern Europe (and brought to America and many other countries to which they immigrated). |
 | | But his perseverance—and the devotion of many other dedicated people of all ages and backgrounds—led to the rescue of 1.5 million Yiddish-language books that were destined for dumpsters from Brooklyn to Buenos Aires. |
 | | Wren brings his writer's eye for detail to every moment, weaving in fascinating stories about the history of each location through which he travels. |
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