When Alfred Ezra Sassoon, father of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon, became the first member of his family to marry outside his faith, relatives were appalled. Alfred’s mother was disconsolate, his grandmother visited a…
‘Naches’ – this is the Yiddish word that best encapsulates the joy I have reading to my daughter. Watching her concern as the children embark on their “bear hunt”; how she gasps at the hungry caterpillar’s insatiable appetite; and sings along to the tunes I’ve invented for The…
