And his mother was a Polish Jew!

The tv star Character Catherine Versen (Valérie Lemercier), agent Françoise Lépine (Magali Garrel) and American Film Producer Brian Sobinski (Sydney Pollack) who is in town to cast as film about French Writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre) meet in the cafe and Catherine (who hopes to play Simone de Beauvoir) tells Sobinski that Sartes Mother was a Polish Jew, Sobinski replies in English, with a smile, "so was mine."

Georges Feydeau's mother, Lodzia Bohuslava Zalewska, was certainly of Polish birth. I do not know what her religion may have been.

Jean-Paul Sartre's mother, Anne-Marie Schweitzer, was the first cousin of Nobel Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer. The Schweitzers were Alsatian Lutherans, but her father, Charles Schweitzer, had married a Catholic woman, Louise Guillemin, and Anne-Marie was brought up as a Roman Catholic. As was Sartre.






If we are to be brothers, let us be brothers for life, die together.

The phrase was first used in context of the statment by one of the characters that Feydeau plays had no psychological underpinings. The response about the Polish Jew parentage was meant, I think, as a comment about how any creation by a Jewish person would have psychological intent. This being the nature of the Jewish mind, etc.