Category: Christmas

My grandparents moved to the UK from mainland Europe in the 1930s. Upon setting up home they made a conscious decision that their children should be British first – being Jewish came second. Thus, my mother and her siblings were brought up celebrating Xmas albeit without any religious significance. I…

My grandparents moved to the UK from mainland Europe in the 1930s. Upon setting up home they made a conscious decision that their children should be British first – being Jewish came a distant second. Thus, my mother and her siblings were brought up celebrating Xmas with all its trimmings….