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May 27, 2021

One of the 20th-Century’s Greatest War Correspondents Was Also a Committed Zionist Who Helped Expose Nazi Crimes

Martha Gellhorn: wife of Hemingway and defender of the Jews.

One of the great war correspondents of the 20th century and a gifted writer, Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) may be best known because of her five-year-long marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Gellhorn also had Jewish ancestry on both sides, and on the eve of World War II she expressed—in Rachel Shteir’s words—“growing moral outrage about the Nazis’ intentions and the absence of heroes to stop them.” Shteir writes:

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