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The power of friendship: How a letter helped create an American bestseller about antisemitism

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Rachel Gordan, Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, University of Florida

Eighty years ago, the Jewish American novelist Laura Z. Hobson was contemplating her next writerly move and was seeking a little help from her friends.

“Gentleman’s Agreement,” the story she was drafting, felt like a bold idea. Maybe too bold. In her vision for the novel, reporter Phil Green is assigned to write an article about antisemitism. He pretends to be Jewish so he can experience bigotry firsthand. Readers follow the character…

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