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016	7		_a016727742 _2Uk
020			_a9781590178881
050	0	0	_aZ330.6.L6 _bA27 2014
082	1		_a381.45 ABR _2
100	1		_aAbramsky, Sasha
245	1	4	_aThe house of twenty thousand books _c/ Sasha Abramsky.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2014
300			_a359 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aIndex included.
520	3		_aThe 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.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aAbramsky, Chimen _y-1916 - 2010
600	1	4	_aAbramsky, Miriam
600	1	4	_aAbramsky, Chimen _y-1916 - 2010 _x-Library
650		4	_aBooksellers and bookselling _z-England _z-London _v--Biography
650		4	_aAntiquarian booksellers _z-England _z-London _v--Biography
650		4	_aBook collectors
650		4	_aJewish historians _v--Biography
651		4	_aLondon (England) _x-Intellectual life _y-20th century
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