The house of twenty thousand books
(Book - Regular Print)
Author
Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
Z330.6.L6A27 2015
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Z330.6.L6A27 2015
1 available
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
"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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Subjects
LC Subjects
Abramsky, Chimen, -- 1916-2010 -- Library.
Abramsky, Chimen, -- 1916-2010.
Abramsky, Miriam.
Antiquarian booksellers -- England -- London -- Biography.
Biographies.
Book collectors -- England -- London -- Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Biography.
Jewish historians -- England -- London -- Biography.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Abramsky, Chimen, -- 1916-2010.
Abramsky, Miriam.
Antiquarian booksellers -- England -- London -- Biography.
Biographies.
Book collectors -- England -- London -- Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- London -- Biography.
Jewish historians -- England -- London -- Biography.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Abramsky, S. (2015). The house of twenty thousand books . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abramsky, Sasha. 2015. The House of Twenty Thousand Books. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abramsky, Sasha. The House of Twenty Thousand Books New York Review Books, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Abramsky, Sasha. The House of Twenty Thousand Books New York Review Books, 2015.
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