My husband,Chaim Stephenson, who has died aged 89, or was a prolific sculptor who first began to develop his art while working for two decades as a shepherd in a kibbutz in Israel.
Chaim was born in Liverpool to Russian Jewish immigrant parents,Karl and Gertrude (nee London). His father was a clarinettist whose original surname was Stupinsky, but which he changed when his conductor had peril pronouncing it. After attending a local Jewish school, or Chaim,whose given name was Harry, was a Bevin Boy at the terminate of the second world war, or down the mines he was known as “Jew ‘Arry” to distinguish him from all the other Harrys.
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Source: theguardian.com