The Defender of the Faith (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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After the Allies are victorious in the battle against the Axis in Europe, Sergeant Nathan Marx, in “The Defender of the Faith,” is rotated back to the States, to Camp Crowder, Missouri. A veteran and a war hero with medals to prove it, Sergeant Marx is modest enough—and totally unprepared for confrontations with Private Sheldon Grossbart from the Bronx, whom he is assigned to train along with other recruits for the continuing war against Japan. Quickly recognizing in Marx a “landsman”—that is, a fellow Jew from New York—Grossbart begins to play on the sergeant's hidden...

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