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- 1 2 3 "Professor Chimen Abramsky" . The Daily Telegraph . 18 May 2010. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- ↑ Dreier, Peter (20 June 2014). "The Leftwing Bibliophile: The Extraordinary Chimen Abramsky". Jewish Currents . Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- 1 2 Abramsky, Sasha (27 August 2015). "How the Atheist Son of a Jewish Rabbi Created One of the Greatest Libraries of Socialist Literature" . The Nation . Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2020. Adapted from The House of Twenty Thousand Books.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Chimen Abramsky Archive. "Series 1: Personal Documents and Family Correspondence | item NNL_ARCHIVE_AL990048958690205171". National Library of Israel . Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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- ↑ Abramsky, Sasha (2014). The house of twenty thousand books. London: Halban. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-905559-64-0 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Nagler Miller, Robert (16 October 2015). "Writer's tribute to grandparents' world of 20,000 books". J. The Jewish News of Northern California . Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
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- ↑ Butler, Menachem (2 December 2015). "Japan's Takahito Mikasa at 100: A Prince Among the Jews". Tablet . Archived from the original on 16 August 2022.
External links
- The Jewish Year Book , 2005, p. 217
- Abramsky, Sasha My Grandfather's House of Twenty Thousand Books - An Abramsky Family Memoir, Introduced by Dr. Naftali Lowenthal. Video. Chabad.org, [2014]
- Rapoport-Albert, Ada Chimen Abramsky obituary: Historian expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature The Guardian , 18 March 2010
- Professor Chimen Abramsky: historian The Times , 19 March 2010. Archived at archive.today Professor Chimen Abramsky: historian
- Davidzon, Vladislav Chimen Abramsky’s House of Twenty Thousand Books Tablet Magazine , February 18, 2015
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שמעון אברמסקי | |
| Born | 12 September 1916 |
| Died | 14 March 2010 (aged 93) |
| Spouse | Miriam Nirenstein |
| Children | 2, including Jenny Abramsky |
| Parent | Yehezkel Abramsky (father) |
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