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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The Schmooze Mariel Hemingway Opens Up About Her Family’s Depression
“I come from one of the greatest American families in the world,” said Mariel Hemingway, Academy-Award-nominated actress, mother, mental health advocate and now author of “Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction and Suicide in my Family.” Speaking to guests at the Hope for Depression Research Foundation’s Ninth Annual HOPE Luncheon…
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Culture True History of an Unknown Hero of the French Jewish Resistance
Shortly after she agreed to speak to me for an interview, Charlotte Sorkine Noshpitz tells me that she has had a dream. Members of her Resistance group are seated on the floor, the way children in a group sometimes arrange themselves. She is standing — behind them, looking down at their heads. She is shocked…
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