Background
Abramsky was born in Minsk, the son of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky.
university professor Judaic scholar
Abramsky was born in Minsk, the son of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky.
University of Oxford. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His first name is pronounced Shimon. He gained a Bachelor degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He was Reader in Jewish History, then Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London.
He was a Senior Fellow at Street Antony"s College, Oxford.
A noted scholar of Jewish History, Abramsky was also well known as an expert and antiquarian Hebrew books and manuscripts, and was professionally consulted for many years by the auction house Sotheby"s, who traditionally run one Hebraica and Judaica auction every year. They had two children, Jack and Jenny.
The house they shared in Northern London was considered an important destination for thinkers and scholars. In 1966, he was invited to take up a newly created lectureship in modern Jewish history at University College London.
In a well known incident, Abramsky once hosted Japanese crown prince and Hebrew scholar Prince Takahito Mikasa at the University College London’s Institute of Jewish Studies in 1975.
Sasha Abramsky: The house of twenty thousand books London: Halban, 2014.
In 1936, while studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he became involved in socialist campus politics and on one occasion, he recalled being beaten up by the future Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir – then a leading figure in the rightwing Irgun.