Sasha Abramsky Books

Focusing on the harsh realities of U.S. prisons, the book critiques the abandonment of rehabilitation ideals in favor of punitive measures, often influenced by political motives. It highlights issues such as life sentences for nonviolent crimes, inhumane conditions, and the rise of private prisons, particularly concerning juvenile treatment. Through thorough research, the author argues that these policies are not only cruel but also ineffective, showcasing the dire consequences of a society that prioritizes incarceration over reform.

Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer, and archer.

This is the story of Sasha Abramsky's grandparents, Chimen and Miriam Abramsky, and of their unique home at 5 Hillway, around the corner from Hampstead Heath. In their semi-detached house, so deceptively ordinary from the outside, the Abramskys created a remarkable House of Books. It became the repository for Chimen's collection of thousands upon thousands of books, manuscripts and other printed, handwritten and painted documents, representing his journey through the great political, philosophical, religious and ethical debates that have shaped the western world.

Tells the story of Chimen Abramsky, a polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history. For more than fifty years Chimen and his wife, Miriam, hosted gatherings in their house of books that brought together many of the age's greatest thinkers. The atheist son of one of the century's most important rabbis, Chimen was born in 1916 near Minsk, spent his early teenage years in Moscow while his father served time in a Siberian labor camp for religious proselytizing, and then immigrated to London, where he discovered the writings of Karl Marx and became involved in left-wing politics. He briefly attended the newly established Hebrew University in Jerusalem, until World War II interrupted his studies. Back in England, he married, and for many years he and Miriam ran a respected Jewish bookshop in London's East End. When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Chimen joined the Communist Party, becoming a leading figure in the party's National Jewish Committee. He remained a member until 1958, when he acknowledged the atrocities committed by Stalin. In middle age, Chimen reinvented himself once more, this time as a liberal thinker, humanist, professor, and manuscripts' expert for Sotheby's auction house. Abramsky re-creates here a lost world, bringing to life the people, the books, and the ideas that filled his grandparents' house, from gatherings that included Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin to books with Marx's handwritten notes, William Morris manuscripts and woodcuts, an early sixteenth-century Bomberg Bible, and a first edition of Descartes's Meditations. --From publisher description

Ebola outbreaks, terrorist attacks, inner-city guns, illegal immigrants, the Zika virus, drug dealers, death panels. Sasha Abramsky sets out to uncover what things frighten us most

Seit Barack Obama ins Licht der Weltöffentlichkeit getreten ist, übt er eine unbestreitbare Anziehungskraft aus. Er hat Charisma und Führungsqualitäten. Er ist dynamisch und volksnah. Aber wie wurde er zu dem, der er heute ist – zu einem der mächtigsten Männer der Welt? Sasha Abramsky hat Obamas Werdegang untersucht und seine Motive, Ideen und Vorstellungen herausgearbeitet. Er zeichnet das faszinierende Bild eines Visionärs, der die Geschicke der Welt wohl noch lange beeinflussen wird.