gentile
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Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
A rabbi and a gentile who fall in love?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
Already aware that, being the daughter of a Jewish father and gentile mother, I was myself a demi-semite, I was worried.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
My father, ever ingenious, found a way to trade our apartment for one a gentile friend had inside the ghetto, hoping the swap might provide better accommodations than any the Nazis would arrange.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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He removed the armband identifying him as a Jew and lined up before dawn with the gentiles to seek bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
But later generations who settled in London married up and out, with Ashkenazis as well as gentiles; they remade themselves as British aristocrats, not all of them gifted in business.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Moreover, their devotion paid off materially; after converting to Catholicism in mass baptisms, Frank’s followers take on Polish names and prosper as gentiles, with several even entering the nobility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
White gentiles in Roth's works don't always speak about Blacks and Jews; sometimes they reflect solely on Blacks.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021
They were dressed like gentiles, and most wore no hats, as though to spite the nasty weather and spit in the face of tradition.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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