Naum Katsenelson 1933-2023

I added English subtitles, but though they provide context, they don’t fully capture the humor and nuances of his speech. In this video, you get a chance to see my father in real life: playing cards with Jonah at our favorite Indian restaurant in Santa Fe, teaching three-year-old Mia Sarah how to paint, toasting Hannah on her tenth and eleventh birthdays, spending time with Hannah in his basement studio, constructing buildings with magnetic blocks with his granddaughters, lovingly making fun of my stepmother’s constant micromanagement of him, giving Hannah art lessons at our house, playing charades on New Year’s Eve, teaching Jonah geometry, explaining to Hannah why there is wind and giving her, her first lessons in philosophy. Finally, my favorite scene is Hannah and my father eating ice cream after we went to the Boulder Symphony.