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
“You can’t look scared,” Halina instructs Mila about passing for gentile, at which she’s something of an expert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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
As my mother and I walked together, I could imagine my gentile friends nearby, still going to school, still playing the streetcar game, but I did not lift my eyes even for a quick peek.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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
Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust archive and museum, has long honored righteous gentiles who saved or in some way protected Jews.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 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
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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