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
Noah was initially written to be a lot more like Tikhman, leaving Levitan unsure whether the stakes between a Jew and gentile who fall in love were high enough for a TV audience.
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
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
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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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