'The House of Twenty Thousand Books' is journalist Sasha Abramsky’s elegy not only to his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, but to the vanished intellectual world of their North London home, where they cultivated a vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history while drawing the greatest thinkers of the era—including Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm—to their salon. Abramsky’s memoir is at once the story of a fascinating family and a chronicle of the embattled twentieth century.
Join New York Review Books for an evening with Sasha Abramsky and David Biale, Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Humanities Institute at UC Davis, as they discuss 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books.' Admission is free for members of the Mechanics’ Institute and $15 for non-members.
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Join New York Review Books for an evening with Sasha Abramsky and David Biale, Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Humanities Institute at UC Davis, as they discuss 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books.' Admission is free for members of the Mechanics’ Institute and $15 for non-members.
'The House of Twenty Thousand Books' is journalist Sasha Abramsky’s elegy not only to his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, but to the vanished intellectual world of their North London home, where they cultivated a vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history while drawing the greatest thinkers of the era—including Isaiah Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm—to their salon. Abramsky’s memoir is at once the story of a fascinating family and a chronicle of the embattled twentieth century.
Join New York Review Books for an evening with Sasha Abramsky and David Biale, Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Humanities Institute at UC Davis, as they discuss 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books.' Admission is free for members of the Mechanics’ Institute and $15 for non-members.
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Join New York Review Books for an evening with Sasha Abramsky and David Biale, Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Humanities Institute at UC Davis, as they discuss 'The House of Twenty Thousand Books.' Admission is free for members of the Mechanics’ Institute and $15 for non-members.
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