Sightings Articles
The Shtetl Strongman — Sarah Imhoff
Nothing telegraphs nostalgia quite like sepia tones. The new children’s book Zishe the Strongman paints the life of an early twentieth-century Jewish entertainer with equal parts longing and joy. Based on the real life strongman Siegmund Breitbart, Z...
December 9, 2010
Jewish Girl, American Doll — Sarah Imhoff
The Sabbath accessory set with its plastic hallah, tiny candlesticks, and tea service is backordered for another six weeks. Nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin would be sad to hear that she'll have to wait so long to have her own Shabbos candles. She would b...
June 18, 2009
American Anti-Semitism, New and Old — Sarah Imhoff
The idea of a "new anti-Semitism" has ignited scholarly controversy in the United States for almost a decade now; many sources, a Nation article among them, call it a myth, while one book's subtitle calls it "The Current Crisis." If the original kind...