The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
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The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
Language
eng
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The house of twenty thousand books
Oclc number
898228424
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Sasha Abramsky
Summary
"The House of Twenty Thousand Books is journalist Sasha Abramsky's elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby's, Chimen Abramsky drew great writers and thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm to his north London home; his library grew from his abiding passion for books and his search for an enduring ideology. The books, documents, and manuscripts that covered every shelf at 5 Hillway were testaments to Chimen's quest -- from the Jewish orthodoxy of his boyhood, to the Communism of his youth, to the liberalism of his mature years. The House of Twenty Thousand Books is at once the story of a fascinating family and chronicle of the embattled twentieth century. The House of Twenty Thousand Books includes 43 photos. "--, Provided by publisher
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- Abramsky, Miriam
- Jewish historians -- England -- London -- Biography
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010 -- Library
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
- Antiquarian booksellers -- England -- London -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Biography
- Book collectors -- England -- London -- Biography
- HISTORY / Jewish
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- Abramsky, Miriam
- Jewish historians -- England -- London -- Biography
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010 -- Library
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
- Antiquarian booksellers -- England -- London -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Biography
- Book collectors -- England -- London -- Biography
- HISTORY / Jewish
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