So, tonight, I a doing an event at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. It’s about the book The House with twenty Thousand Books. The address of the house is 5 Hillway, London, N6. I thoguht, I knew roughly where it was, but when I looked it up, I realised that it was here: The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimen_Abramsky NYRB Books Halban – UK Publisher Obituaries: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/18/chimen-abramsky-obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7737796/Professor-Chimen-Abramsky.html http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/01/sasha-abramsky-chimen-abramsky http://jewishcurrents.org/leftwing-bibliophile-extraordinary-chimen-abramsky-29738 Reviews of this Book http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/01/sasha-abramsky-chimen-abramsky http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky Huffington Post Washington Free Beacon Financial Times Washington Post Jewish Chronicle Ham and High (Hampstead and Highgate) Jewish Book Council Kirkus Calcutta Telegraph Times Literary Supplement Shelf Awareness Sasha Abramsky speaking about the book The House of…
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…
“Judt, James and Didion are shot through with the element that defines great art: they speak truths that the rest of us recognise but are unable to articulate.” Mick Heaney, son of Seamus, writes about writing about dying. Referencing many favourites. In his book Without Feathers Woody Allen has a line that has become one…
