Julie Sugar

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Julie Sugar |Akiva Schick |Aron Rodrigue |Anita Shapira

Stanford University Press 256 pp., $26 When Zsuzsika Rubin was four years old, her mother, Lilly, took her to a photographer’s portrait studio, where she wore different outfits and hairstyles and struck poses with props: as an all-grown-up lady doing her “daily shopping” with a plush dog and a straw basket, as a housewife in an apron hovering over a little toy stove.