Readers would be forgiven for not knowing who Siegmund Salzmann was, and many will not be familiar with the name he adopted as an adult, either. But the book he wrote (as Felix Salten) is one most will have heard of, even though Bambi was written almost a hundred years ago, in 1923. Salzmann was born in Vienna where he grew up in an environment increasingly hostile to Jews; he changed his name in an effort to avoid being targeted by anti-Semites. According to Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Bambi is...