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
Alexander, or Sandy, a lawyer and Midwesterner who shed his gentile background, is despondent, near-suicidal over his failing marriage and “the full catastrophe” of recent history.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
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
The reality, more often, was to be regarded as a Jew among gentiles and a gentile among Jews.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2018
In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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