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
Creator-showrunner Erin Foster can’t imagine her Netflix rom-com about a progressive rabbi and a gentile sex podcaster set anywhere but her native Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
“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
Apparently tipped off to their presence, the Germans raided the school in 1943 on the Christian feast of Pentecost, when gentile students were likely to be home with their families.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022
At Schindler's factory, my father picked up rumors about the war from the gentile workers.
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
Behind the discussion of gentiles in Jewish roles is the long history of Hollywood anxiety that a work will be “too Jewish,” words that have haunted Jewish artists for generations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
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
Ira Ringold in "I Married a Communist" is nothing like any of the white gentiles we just encountered, nor like any of the Jews we shall meet below.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021
I understood now: I could stand with my family, or with the gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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