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02966aam a22005298i 4500 001 F4C6778847CA11E598A1CBA4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 150330s2015 nyu 001 0ceng 010 $a 2015006798 020 $a 1590178882 : HRD 020 $a 9781590178881 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d SILO 050 00 $a Z330.6.L6 $b A27 2015 082 00 $a 381/.450020922421 082 00 $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Abramsky, Sasha. 245 14 $a The house of twenty thousand books / $c Sasha Abramsky. 263 $a 1509 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c 2015. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "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 ofTwenty 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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Abramsky, Chimen, $d 1916-2010. 600 10 $a Abramsky, Miriam. 600 10 $a Abramsky, Chimen, $d 1916-2010 $x Library. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Antiquarian booksellers $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Book collectors $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish historians $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Jewish. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a London (England) $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Abramsky, Sasha. $t House of twenty thousand books $d New York : New York Review Books, 2015 $z 9781590178898 $w (DLC) 2015020064 856 42 $3 Cover image $u 9781590178881.jpg 941 $a 8 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204081312.0 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20200110091702.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110063229.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032511.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006090854.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202092122.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20151211010833.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150923012039.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F4C6778847CA11E598A1CBA4DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search