Douglas Gresham has begun talking about his difficulty experiences as a child with his brother, David, and how Lewis and Uncle Warnie did all they could to care for this dangerously schizophrenic boy.
“When I was a small child,” Gresham told Jonathon Van Maren, “he was continually trying to get rid of me. This went on into our teen years.” He said he remembers “running like crazy or defending myself from my rather insane brother. . . I would never have said anything to harm him or upset him while he was alive, because oddly enough I still loved him as a brother. In fact, I wept when he died.”
“Jack went out of his way to do everything he possibly could for that lad, and none of it was accepted.” (via Prufrock News)
I did not know about this. I knew David had returned to Judaism, and Jack paid for rabbinical school for him. It’s all very sad.
Were Joy and William both ethnic Jews?
I don’t think William was Jewish. But in Judaism, the children follow the mother.