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/></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1916-09-12</span>)</span>12 September 1916<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">14 March 2010<span style="display:none">(2010-03-14)</span> (aged 93)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Miriam Nirenstein</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Abramsky" title="Jenny Abramsky">Jenny Abramsky</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yehezkel_Abramsky" title="Yehezkel Abramsky">Yehezkel Abramsky</a> (father)</td></tr><tr><td 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class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Chimen Abramsky</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">שמעון אברמסקי</span>; 12 September 1916 – 14 March 2010) was emeritus professor of Jewish studies at <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first name is pronounced <i>Shimon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chimen_Abramsky&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abramsky was born in <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Jews">Lithuanian Jewish</a> family on 12 September 1916, the son of <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">Rabbi</a> <a href="/wiki/Yehezkel_Abramsky" title="Yehezkel Abramsky">Yehezkel Abramsky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He gained a BA degree from the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem" title="Hebrew University of Jerusalem">Hebrew University of Jerusalem</a> and an MA from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>. He was Reader in <a href="/wiki/Jewish_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish History">Jewish History</a>, then Goldsmid Professor of <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Studies">Jewish Studies</a> at University College London. He was a Senior Fellow at <a href="/wiki/St_Antony%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Antony's College, Oxford">St Antony's College, Oxford</a>. A noted scholar of Jewish History, Abramsky was also well known as an expert on antiquarian Hebrew books and manuscripts, and was professionally consulted for many years by the auction house <a href="/wiki/Sotheby%27s" title="Sotheby's">Sotheby's</a>, which traditionally ran one Hebraica and <a href="/wiki/Judaica" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaica">Judaica</a> auction every year.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His father arrived in London in December 1931 after being expelled from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. The next year Chimen arrived with his mother and younger brother.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three years later, in 1935, he travelled to <a href="/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine" title="Mandate for Palestine">Palestine</a> to study history at the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_University_in_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew University in Jerusalem">Hebrew University in Jerusalem</a> but became involved in socialist campus politics. On one occasion he was beaten up by future Israeli prime minister <a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir" title="Yitzhak Shamir">Yitzhak Shamir</a> – then a leading figure in the rightwing <a href="/wiki/Irgun" title="Irgun">Irgun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abramsky was described as an atheist.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Visiting <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> in the summer of 1939 to see his parents Abramsky was unable to return to Palestine because of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War 2</a>. Instead he started working at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shapiro,_Vallentine_%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shapiro, Vallentine & Co (page does not exist)">Shapiro, Vallentine & Co</a>., London's oldest Jewish bookshop and publisher of Jewish scholarly books, where he met Miriam Nirenstein, the proprietor's daughter. They married in 1940 and had two children, Jack and <a href="/wiki/Jenny_Abramsky" title="Jenny Abramsky">Jenny</a>. Jack, a mathematician, is the father of <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Abramsky" title="Sasha Abramsky">Sasha Abramsky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jenny became of the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s longest-serving senior executives.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abramsky was the uncle by marriage of the socialist historian <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Samuel" title="Raphael Samuel">Raphael Samuel</a>. The house Chimen and Miriam shared in <a href="/wiki/Highgate" title="Highgate">Highgate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern London">Northern London</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was considered an important destination for thinkers and scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, he was invited to take up a newly created lectureship in modern Jewish history at University College London. </p><p>In a well-known incident, Abramsky once hosted the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Crown_prince" title="Crown prince">prince</a> and Hebrew scholar <a href="/wiki/Takahito,_Prince_Mikasa" title="Takahito, Prince Mikasa">Prince Takahito Mikasa</a> at the University College London's Institute of Jewish Studies in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abramsky died on 14 March 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chimen_Abramsky&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sasha_Abramsky" title="Sasha Abramsky">Abramsky, Sasha</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/houseoftwentytho0000abra_z9t8/mode/2up"><i>The house of twenty thousand books</i></a>. 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Video. <a href="/wiki/Chabad.org" title="Chabad.org">Chabad.org</a>, [2014]</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ada_Rapoport-Albert" title="Ada Rapoport-Albert">Rapoport-Albert, Ada</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/18/chimen-abramsky-obituary">Chimen Abramsky obituary: Historian expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, 18 March 2010</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-chimen-abramsky-historian-5z86hp2lrpq">Professor Chimen Abramsky: historian</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, 19 March 2010. 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