Gentleman’s Agreement

Hobson is best-known for Gentleman’s Agreement, the story of an American gentile journalist who poses as a Jew in order to gain a firsthand experience of antisemitism in American life. The book is a scathing depiction of the subtle and insidious manifestations of antisemitism in American society at that…

Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement, revealing the unwritten code of anti-Semitism upheld in American middle-class circles, created a stir among a public freshly shocked by the Holocaust.