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\'Defender of the Faith\';

In Philip Roth\'s, \'Defender of the Faith\';, Sergeant Nathan Marx is the \'Defender\'; of whom the title speaks. Reluctant at first, Marx defended his faith on two fronts, one across the sea in Europe and the second in the United States. The battle in the states was of a different type. Marx learned what it was like to defend his and the faith of his fellow Jews against prejudice and abuse by those who waged the war.
Marx is not an orthodox Jew. He does not follow the doctrine as most of those in his religion would and did not realize until asked by Grossbart that he was still religious. It was not that he was religious yet more of the religion was sentimental to him. Marx a battle-tested soldier in the U.S. Army did not even recognize that he had already defeated an enemy set to wipe his heritage. PFC Grossbart and Captain Barrett were Marx\'s next opponents.
Grossbart first introduced himself as \'Sheldon\'; to try to get on a first name basis......

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