There’s a part of me that wonders if An American Pickle takes place in an alternate timeline where the Holocaust never happened.
This is not the same thing as saying that it takes place in a world free of anti-semitism. Anti-semitism — the reality of it and the fear of it — is a driving force behind much of the action in the movie. Cossacks start a pogrom during Herschel and Sarah Greenbaum’s wedding (hiiii Fiddler on the Roof), and…