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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

Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2023

“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

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

On his TV show, he was wary of offending gentiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

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

The reality, more often, was to be regarded as a Jew among gentiles and a gentile among Jews.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2018

Fortunately the animosity lasted only a few days out of the year, and generally in Narewka, Jews and gentiles existed peacefully alongside each other.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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