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The best Jewish tennis player in the world can handle antisemitism — just don’t kid him about his height

Tennis has a few improbable stories — like Richard Williams teaching his daughters Serena and Venus to play on public courts in Compton, California. Or Novak Djokovic dodging bomb-cratered blocks in Belgrade, Serbia in order to get to his practices during the NATO assault on his country in the late 1990s. Or, consider the saga…

By Daniel Grant Nov 14, 2020 | 7 min read
Culture
Who’s Collecting Racist, Segregation-Era Memorabilia?

As antiques go, this pair of white enameled cast iron drinking fountains, both chipped and one missing the spigot and guard, might have seemed a bit overpriced at $8,625 when they was sold at Cowan’s Auctions, in Cincinnati, but the reason buyers were acquiring it was not that they were thirsty. One of the fountains…

By Daniel Grant Jul 19, 2018 | 5 min read
Culture
Why Collectors of ‘Antisemitica’ Aren’t Always Anti-Semites

In our capitalistic world, everything (tangible) is ownable and collectible, including items that one might assume no one ever would choose to own or collect, such as signed mug shots of Charles Manson, African slave trade shackles or Islamic State T-shirts and hats. Atrocities are to be learned from, one might think, the paraphernalia associated…

By Daniel Grant Jan 23, 2016 | 8 min read

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