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July 23, 2015

Who Changed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Feelings about the Jews?

Was it his Jewish secretary?

The portrait of the Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby, along with other passages and comments in his writings, suggest that F. Scott Fitzgerald was less than well-disposed toward Jews. But in the last year of his life he employed a Jewish secretary—Frances Kroll Ring, who died last month—and was involved with a Jewish woman. Arthur Krystal suggests they might have changed his attitude:

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