Rear Window - MY LIFE, MY LIBRARY AND THE LEFT

[ibnadiy]

I keep coming back to watch this, over and over again.

[richardharris]

Absolutely fascinating. Not just the books which are extraordinary, but the intellectual life and seriousness they represented. Humbling.

[LoudlyListening]

I am kinda obbsessed with this guy's history, books especially his book shop Vallentine Shapiro and Co the history of which is scarce from what I can find?

I really wish I could have met him and listen to him. As a UK leftist jew, communist Jewish history is not something I have been taught or found much of.

Chimen Abramsky started at Vallentine Shapiro and Co in summer 1939, where he married the boss (or bosses' daughter?) and quickly moved to owning and running it. which had been open until the 1960s and was open in the 1800s but I am not sure how far back, who owned it pre 1908 and when it opened and how. It is different to the London started in 1940s and still running Jewish London book publisher Vallentine Mitchell.

If anyone else here knows anything about this guy/the bookshop (not in the book house of 20, 000 books or 2 spititalfield articles about east London Jewish book shops) please message me!!

[MartinJames]

I agree with Tariq Ali about Douglas Jardine and I daresay he probably joins me in warming rather to Percy Fender in the very reactionary English cricket world of the 1920s and '30s. Hard as some people try, cricket and politics cannot be untangled and "cricket prophecy" was probably one of very few topics in his vast collection on which Chimen Abramsky could not offer a view -but Tariq Ali certainly can.

[Lyraorganum]

Hahahha tariq at 13:20, Tariq transforms into Gollum!