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
Want to watch a Jewish guy and a gentile woman humorously navigate their relationship?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
“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
Vocabulary lists containing gentile
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
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