Current thinking on the development of the male sex puts twenty-eight as the age at which the man becomes fully human. By chance, twenty-eight is the age at which the author brings this memoir to an end. This is the story of an ordinary boy into man who had to negotiate his way between the numerous con icting forces and in uences, both external and internal which burdened him from his earliest years: Anglo-Jew and the dif culties of integrating the Anglo and the Jew. A paternal family where intellectual and academic brilliance was the attribute most admired and celebrated and a maternal one,...