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I Lose a Topaz by Gastronomy
and Gain a Diamond Through
Romance
B
eing of
the strict Jewish Orthodox faith, my parents were very anxious that I
should not receive Aryan contamination while I was being educated. When
there were some half-dozen of us children of school age in the house,
educating the family privately became too much for the family purse. I,
as eldest, was sent to school. I was not at first sent to the communal
schools, for there—although Orthodox boys were excused writing on
Saturdays (the Jewish Sabbath), which according to Orthodox ideas is
manual labour—my parents feared that I would be tempted somehow into
breaking the Sabbath and acquiring other heterodox practices. But after
I had been attending a private school for some months, my parents saw
with alarm that I was doing no good there, and with some misgivings
they sent me to a communal school, where the pupils were very mixed in
race and class.
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