When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to keep his Jewish identity hidden from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they will be anti-Semitic. Because of his football skills, he quickly becomes the big man on campus, but when his Jewish background is revealed, his worst fears are realized, and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
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When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to keep his Jewish identity hidden from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they will be anti-Semitic. Because of his football skills, he quickly becomes the big man on campus, but when his Jewish background is revealed, his worst fears are realized, and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
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