Mary Dearborn
By Mary Dearborn
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Culture Ernest Hemingway was a great writer. He was also an antisemite
How do we grapple with the remarks the author made in his fiction and in his correspondence?
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Culture On Ernest Hemingway’s 120th Birthday, A Look Back At His Anti-Semitism
Editor’s Note: Ernest Hemingway would have turned 120 today. How should we look at his work in light of his Anti-Semitism? Unquestionably, Ernest Hemingway was anti-Semitic. Studded throughout his letters are nasty remarks about Jews. But Hemingway felt his prejudice had a place in his fiction as well, most notably in “The Sun Also Rises,”…
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Opinion Does Ernest Hemingway Get A Pass For His Anti-Semitism?
Unquestionably, Ernest Hemingway was anti-Semitic. Studded throughout his letters are nasty remarks about Jews. But Hemingway felt his prejudice had a place in his fiction as well, most notably in “The Sun Also Rises,” his classic 1925 novel about a group of Paris expatriates at the bullfights in Pamplona. Hemingway routinely describes Robert Cohn, introduced…
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