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Ancient Judaism and early Christianity volume 86
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Series
Life of Josephus volume 9
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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...