Title
The House Of Twenty Thousand Books
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Named One Of Kirkus'S Best Nonfiction Books Of 2015The House Of Twenty Thousand Books Is The Story Of Chimen Abramsky, An Extraordinary Polymath And Bibliophile Who Amassed A Vast Collection Of Socialist Literature And Jewish History. For More Than Fifty Years Chimen And His Wife, Miriam, Hosted Epic Gatherings In Their House Of Books That Brought Together Many Of The Ages Greatest Thinkers.The Atheist Son Of One Of The Centurys Most Important Rabbis, Chimen Was Born In 1916 Near Minsk, Spent His Early Teenage Years In Moscow While His Father Served Time In A Siberian Labor Camp For Religious Proselytizing, And Then Immigrated To London, Where He Discovered The Writings Of Karl Marx And Became Involved In Leftwing Politics. He Briefly Attended The Newly Established Hebrew University In Jerusalem, Until World War Ii Interrupted His Studies. Back In England, He Married, And For Many Years He And Miriam Ran A Respected Jewish Bookshop In Londons East End. When The Nazis Invaded Russia In June 1941, Chimen Joined The Communist Party, Becoming A Leading Figure In The Partys National Jewish Committee. He Remained A Member Until 1958, When, Shockingly Late In The Day, He Finally Acknowledged The Atrocities Committed By Stalin. In Middle Age, Chimen Reinvented Himself Once More, This Time As A Liberal Thinker, Humanist, Professor, And Manuscripts Expert For Sothebys Auction House.Journalist Sasha Abramsky Recreates Here A Lost World, Bringing To Life The People, The Books, And The Ideas That Filled His Grandparents House, From Gatherings That Included Eric Hobsbawm And Isaiah Berlin To Books With Marxs Handwritten Notes, William Morris Manuscripts And Woodcuts, An Early Sixteenthcentury Bomberg Bible, And A First Edition Of Descartess Meditations. The House Of Twenty Thousand Books Is A Wondrous Journey Through Our Times, From The Vanished Worlds Of Eastern European Jewry To The Cacophonous Politics Of Modernity.The House Of Twenty Thousand Books Includes 43 Photos.
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