My Grandfather's House of Twenty Thousand Books: An Abramsky Family Memoir - Introduced by Dr. Naftali Lowenthal
His great grandfather was a revered rabbinic scholar imprisoned by the Soviets, his grandson a card carrying communist party member who filled his London home with thousands of rare works representing vastly different worlds.
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Sasha Abramsky is the grandson of Professor Chimen Abramsky and great grandson of Rabbi Yechezkal Abramsky, a renowned Russian rabbi who went on to head the London Beit Din. Sasha is a writer and freelance journalist. His most recent book is a family memoir focusing on the thousands of books that filled his grandfather's home, and the different worlds that converged there.
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