The House of Twenty Thousand Books (35 page)

14. Four generations of Abramskys.
L to r:
Jack, Sasha, Chimen and Yehezkel. Jerusalem, 1973.

15. Chimen and Sasha in Jack and Lenore’s garden. Southampton, 1974.

16.
L to r:
Mimi, Jack, Chimen and Jenny. London, early 1980s.

17. Around the dining table.
L to r:
Henry Collins, Professor Y. Imai, Chimen, Ray Waterman and Mimi. Hillway, 1960s.

18. Chimen’s mentor in the book trade, Heinrich Eisemann. Date unknown.

19.
L to r:
Mimi, an unidentified woman, Abby Robinson and Renee Robinson. Early 1950s. Robinson was a mathematician and a friend from the Hebrew University.

20.
L to r:
Communist MP Phil Piratin and Hyman Levy, May 1964. Levy’s expulsion from the Communist Party precipitated Chimen’s decision to leave the Party.

21. Isaiah Berlin and Chimen. 1960s. Berlin’s commitment to liberty was, Chimen said, ‘a beacon of enlightenment in a confused age’.

22. Chimen with the former Israeli President Chaim Herzog at a sale of the Sassoon collection. Tel Aviv, September 1994.

23. A reception at University College London after a lecture given by the Prince Mikasa of Japan. June 1975. Chimen is seated at the right.

24. Chimen, Mimi and Shmuel Ettinger. Ettinger was an eminent Israeli historian and Chimen’s closest friend.

25. Freda Hafka, Jacob Talmon, Mimi and Chimen. Another friend since Chimen’s days at the Hebrew University, Talmon was a leading anti-Marxist liberal historian.

26. Family group at Jenny and Al’s house, late 1980s.
Back row, l to r:
Kolya, Chimen’s cousin Golda Zimmerman, Lenore;
Middle row, l to r:
Al, Tanya, Chimen, Mimi, Maia, Sasha, Rob;
Front row:
Jenny and Jack.