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Named one of Kirkus's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015The 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.   House Manderly - A Wiki of Ice and Fire House Manderly of White Harbor is a noble family in the north whose seat is the New Castle in the city of White Harbor. They are among the most powerful and loyal vassals of House Stark as well as ... HorrorsNotDead.com -- A Favorite Horror Movie Blog for OVER NINE ... Posted by: Seth Hall. What is horror? I could sit here and read the definition out of the dictionary but what would that really mean? I could conjure images of monsters specters and behemoths ... As Much as She Needs Tin House Home of the magazine the books ... I imagined that I could hear the clicking of the carousel but really I couldnt. I more or less felt it somewhere in my body though like my heartbeat. Sitting in a dark room at the MoMA I ... List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumeswhich he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Goodreads Start by marking Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages 6) as Want to Read: House Stark - A Wiki of Ice and Fire House Stark of Winterfell is one of the Great Houses of Westeros and the principal noble house of the north. In days of old they ruled as Kings of Winte... ... Leaving Lord Roose Bolton in command ... LS2 PAC - Catalog Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password. Remember Me George Packer - The New Yorker George Packer became a staff writer in 2003. For the magazine he has covered the Iraq War and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone civil unrest in the Ivory Coast ... Hillary Releases Twenty Thousand Spam E-Mails from Old Navy - The New ... The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday released twenty thousand spam e-mails she received from Old Navy. ... Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY VICTOR J. BLUE/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY. WASHINGTON ... Building On A Budget: The Incredible $8000 Tiny House ... Many want the tiny house dream but fear they can't afford it. One owner built the incredible $8000 tiny house and gives tips here on how you can do it too ... To start off this is not a list of ...
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