Remembering Martin Jerome Kaufman [February 7, 2007]

That he was the son of my namesake John Ned Kaufman and Celia Kaufman probably meant that my uncle Marty was doomed to be damaged, as my mother, their eldest surviving child, certainly was. John Ned was a brawl-prone ne'er-do-well who commonly moved his family out of rented premises in the dead of night to avoid having to come up with the rent, but when…