Goyim is a Yiddish word meaning “Gentiles” or non-Jewish people.
Goyim Quotes in The Plot Against America
The The Plot Against America quotes below are all either spoken by Goyim or refer to Goyim. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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“I am not running away!” he shouted, startling everyone. “This is our country!” “No, my mother said sadly, “not anymore. It’s Lindbergh’s. It’s the goyim’s. It’s their country,” she said, and her breaking voice and the shocking words and the nightmare immediacy of what was mercilessly real forced my father […] to see himself with mortifying clarity: a devoted father of titanic energy no more capable of protecting his family from harm than was Mr. Wishnow hanging dead in the closet.
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Goyim Term Timeline in The Plot Against America
The timeline below shows where the term Goyim appears in The Plot Against America. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War
...Bengelsdorf and his ridiculous speech. Alvin numbly states that Bengelsdorf is “koshering Lindbergh for the goyim”—in giving Lindbergh a rabbi’s stamp of approval, Alvin believes, Bengelsdorf has just guaranteed his win...
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Chapter 3: Following Christians
...his mother and father so that they can travel around the outskirts of Newark following goyim—Jews, their own people, never interest them.
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Chapter 6: Their Country
...within his own country—Bess, however, retorted that the country now belongs to Lindbergh and the goyim. Sandy told Philip, alone in their room that night, that their parents are “paranoid ghetto...
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