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gentile

[jen-tahyl] / ˈdʒɛn taɪl /


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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

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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