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Hardcover Gentleman's Agreement: A Novel Book

ISBN: B000O15VFY

ISBN13: 9780103601212

Gentleman's Agreement: A Novel

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The plot of GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT concerns the experiences of a young Gentile writer who poses as a Jew in order to secure material on anti-Semitism for a series of magazine articles. A thesis novel concerning the social and economic aspects of anti-Semitism in American life. Timely when issued in 1947 - timely today. Number 1 position on the New York Times Best Seller List for five straight months in 1947. Film version chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle. "If a masterful work of art is one which probes deep into the consciousness of the beholder to create a lasting impression and to forge and refine the higher human impulses, then GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT deserves such a description. It is a rare combination of absorbing story and statement of a current problem." - The Indianapolis Star This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 4 stars
What is it Like to Be a Jew for Only Six Weeks?

Written 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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"You're Not Any More Jewish Than I Am."

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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A good book that is, sadly, not dated

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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