"There are Jews now who live in both the Jewish and gentile worlds," he said.

Unattractive, painfully conscious of his Jewishness in an oppressively gentile world, David struggles with tormenting questions of love and identity in subsequent narratives.

Coverage included events both in the Jewish and gentile world, and extended to science, education, history, geography, and literature.

He was respected not only by the international Jewish community, but as well by the gentile world.

He had always lived in liberal Amsterdam, and had access to the intellectual life of the gentile world and the opportunity to practice his faith unmolested.

It was easier for Spinoza to survive in the gentile world than it had been for Prado or Da Costa.

Segregation increased anti-Semitic prejudice, and Jews naturally responded to the persecuting gentile world with bitterness and suspicion.

Their attitude to the gentile world had hardened since the 1960s.

Ben, whose voice-over narration frames the story, is astounded to discover the existence of a gentile world where people consume bread that isn't toasted.

Though everyone still calls him Shep, his Yiddish name, he learns to pass in a gentile world without coming to terms with the person he left behind.