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
A gentile was more conspicuous in Kazimierz than in the central part of the city we had lived in.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
On his TV show, he was wary of offending gentiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
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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