The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Chimen Abramsky, the grandfather of journalist Sasha Abramsky, was an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. In The House of Twenty Thousand Books, illustrated with the family’s photos, Sasha Abramsky re-creates the lost world of his grandparents, bringing to life the people, the books, and the ideas that filled their house, from gatherings with 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.
Who needs furniture if you can have books?
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