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Half-Jew, Full Life: Georgette Bennett on Identity, Survival, and the American Dream
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- Common Faith
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- Mar 5, 2026
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- 3188
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Summary
Dr. Georgette Bennett joins Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove and Jon Frankel for a powerful and deeply personal conversation about her new book, Half-Jew–Full Life. The book tells the extraordinary story of Gary “Pips” Phillips — a self-described “voluntary Jew” who survived Nazi Berlin by going underground, was arrested four times, and ultimately built a life in America. But this episode is about more than survival. It’s about identity — chosen and imposed. It’s about moral complexity, resilience without romanticizing trauma, and what it means to be a Jew beyond the shadow of the Holocaust. Bennett, herself a child of Holocaust survivors, reflects on memory, legacy, and the Jewish responsibility toward the stranger in our own divided moment.