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Named one of "Kirkus"'s Best Nonfiction Books of 2015" The 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 age s greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century s 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 left-wing 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 London s East End. When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Chimen joined the Communist Party, becoming a leading figure in the party s 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 Sotheby s auction house. Journalist Sasha Abramsky re-creates 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 Marx s handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes s "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."

Enter fruitfully into the seasons of the Christian year in the company of the church's most senior pastors and teachers. What are the seasons of the Church's year? Why have they become shaped as they have and what can we do to make them good? Contributors include: ROWAN WILLIAMS, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, on A Good Christmas. JUSTIN WELBY, Archbishop of Canterbury, on A Good Lent. STEPHEN COTTRELL, Bishop of Chelmsford, on A Good Holy Week. STEPHEN CONWAY, Bishop of Ely, on A Good Easter. Edited by Mark Oakley, The House of Twenty Thousand Books free ebook Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral and author of Collage of God, Readings for Weddings and Readings for Funerals. The central figure is a man named Morose, who hates noise yet lives in the centre of London, and who, because of his decision to marry a woman he supposes to be silent, exposes himself to a fantastic cacophony of voices, male, female and - epicene. This student edition contains a lengthy Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical interpretation and stage history.

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Author: Sasha Abramsky
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2015
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781590178881
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