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HistoryWritten in the 1940's, this book tackles the problems of anti-semitism. A journalist decides 'to be a Jew' for six weeks, to view anti-semitism ethnographically, from the inside out. It is interesting to see the different attitudes about sex, gender roles, and social mores of the 1940's. It was a good book and probably ground-breaking for its time. I saw the movie, starring Gregory Peck, several years ago and that was...
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GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT concerns the experiences of one Philip S. Green, an investigative reporter who decides to pretend he's Jewish to get to the heart of modern American anti-Semitism. Although written in 1946 and concerning the immediate post-World War Two era (the late months of 1945, the peak of New Deal liberalism, and the growing Conservative reactionaryism of the time), GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT still reads well, despite...
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Although the book takes place in 1946 and concerns rampant anti-semitism, both overt and subtle, it's a book that trancends time. The book's anti-semitism could easily be replaced by any other kind of racism and feel right at home in 2005. The story concerns a liberal Christian writer who takes on a magazine assignment to write about anti-semitism and his angle is to pose as a Jew so he can find out firsthand. It is a rude...
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