Editing Lionel Bart (section)

==Early life==
He was born '''Lionel Begleiter''', the youngest of seven surviving children of [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galician]] Jews, Yetta (née Darumstundler) and Morris Begleiter, a master tailor.<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/72145 |title=Bart &#91;formerly Begleiter&#93;, Lionel (1930-1999), song-writer and composer of musicals : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - oi |chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |pages=ref:odnb/72145 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/72145 |access-date=2015-01-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403124354/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref%3Aodnb/72145 |archive-date= 3 April 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> He grew up in [[Stepney]]; his father worked in the area as a tailor in a garden shed. The family had escaped the pogroms against Jews by Ukrainian cossacks in [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]].

As a young man he was an accomplished painter. When Bart was aged six, a teacher told his parents that he was a musical genius. His parents gave him an old violin, but he did not apply himself and the lessons stopped.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}