"I grew up, the middle of three sisters, in a small town in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains."¹

"I am first-generation American on both sides. My parents came to this country with their parents at a very young age. And, growing up, I was always aware of that.

"My father's family came from the Ukraine ... but he was born in London. A strange and wonderful place, it always seemed to me, for the ... son of Ukrainian-Jewish parents to be born. Somehow, growing up myself ... in a town Look magazine called Hometown U.S.A., I didn't quite believe in the reality of English Jews. Russian Jews, yes. Polish Jews, yes. Even German Jews. I knew those people. But English Jews? Yet there was my father, an English Jew by birth. And, indeed, in my eyes, it lent him an added enchantment.

"The Fox family (they may originally...