'An American Tail’: Modern Lessons on Racism, Immigration and Human Decency
It was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. We could all do with a revisit toAn American Tail. twice; apparently this alsomeant little to Siskel and Ebert at the time. All of this dark material is preceded by a warm, wonderful moment showing the Mousekewitz family celebrating Hanukkah. To put it briefly, they were not alone in their tragedies nor their hopes for a better tomorrow. From 1880 to 1930, the Great Wave of European immigrants flooding into America was estimated at 27 million....