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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 Quotes
“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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In this passage, Bess and Herman continue an ongoing and miserable argument about what to do in the face of Homestead 42’s edict. Bess believes their family should flee to Canada, but Herman is repulsed by the idea of running away from his country. Bess points out that America was never really “their” country—it is the country of the goyim, or the Gentiles (non-Jews), and it always has been. To think that America has ever truly been welcoming of its Jewish citizens, Bess posits, is blind and foolish. As Bess drags her husband—and indeed her sons—into the knowledge of the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum e
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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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