My grandfather, Simon Majaro, who has died aged 95, led a life rich in reinvention. A marketing professor at Cranfield University, he was also a management consultant, author, translator, luthier and patron of chamber music. From consulting to craftsmanship, translation to fiction, he connected people, ideas and cultures.
Born in Jerusalem, Simon was the son of Hanna (nee Rokach) and Leon Majaro, a doctor and Russian-Jewish refugee who fled Odessa (now Odesa) after the 1917 revolution. As a child he met the poet Haim Nahman Bialik, the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the future Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir.
