Yehudi Menuhin: The Childhood of a Prodigy

Yehudi Menuhin’s father, Moshe Menuhin, was born in Gomel, in that swathe of Imperial Russia called “the pale of settlement,” a region beyond which Jews were only exceptionally allowed to reside. The Menuhins (originally Mnuchin), one of whose forbears founded Chabad Hassidism in the eighteenth century, were a devout family. When Jews were being slaughtered […]