The Resource The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
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- Summary
- "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. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781590178881
- Label
- The house of twenty thousand books
- Title
- The house of twenty thousand books
- Statement of responsibility
- Sasha Abramsky
- Title variation
- House of 20,000 books
- Subject
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- Book collectors -- England | London -- Biography
- trueIntellectual life
- Jewish historians -- England | London -- Biography
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010 -- Library
- Abramsky, Miriam
- Antiquarian booksellers -- England | London -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- trueBook collectors
- trueBooksellers
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England | London -- Biography
- HISTORY / Jewish
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10442586
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Abramsky, Sasha
- Dewey number
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- 381/.450020922421
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Abramsky, Chimen
- Abramsky, Miriam
- Abramsky, Chimen
- Booksellers and bookselling
- Antiquarian booksellers
- Book collectors
- Jewish historians
- London (England)
- HISTORY / Jewish
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
- Label
- The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn898228424
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590178881
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015006798
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898228424
- Label
- The house of twenty thousand books, Sasha Abramsky
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn898228424
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590178881
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2015006798
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)898228424
Subject
- Book collectors -- England | London -- Biography
- trueIntellectual life
- Jewish historians -- England | London -- Biography
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010
- Abramsky, Chimen, 1916-2010 -- Library
- Abramsky, Miriam
- Antiquarian booksellers -- England | London -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- trueBook collectors
- trueBooksellers
- Booksellers and bookselling -- England | London -- Biography
- HISTORY / Jewish
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