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In the beginning

All the beginnings are hard. That is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more, this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people.

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  • "The novel, set in the Bronx, New York, concerns a gifted Jewish boy who becomes a Biblical scholar. From shortly after birth, in the 1920's, David Lurie is plagued by illnesses that prove to be emblematic of his growing up. He is bullied by bigger boys, haunted by the "accidents" that he brings upon others, safe only within his pious home. David's inner life, tortured with fears and bad dreams is followed through the Depression, which nearly ruins his family; through the late thirties and forties, as the news from Europe grows more and more dreadful; and into his budding years as a scholar."
  • "All the beginnings are hard. That is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more, this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people."@en
  • "Een jonge joodse jongen in New York komt in de jaren '20 voor de keuze te staan jodenhaat al of niet met geweld te beantwoorden."
  • "David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everything he has been taught.. From the Paperback edition."@en
  • "Growing up as a Jew in New York during the Great Depression and World War II.l_"@en
  • ""'In the beginning' opens as David Lurie, now a famous Biblical scholar, now guiding his young students on the dangerous tightrope path of inquiry he himself traveled as a youth--where a misstep might mean hurtling into a bitter loss of faith--looks back at his own beginning ... In Davey we experience not only the universal joys--and universal guilts--of childhood, but the special excitements and the added burdens of a rare spirit and mind destined for rare achievements, and the cruel choices that such destiny demands of child, boy, youth, and man.""@en

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  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"

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  • "Au commencement"
  • "In the beginning"@en
  • "In the beginning"
  • "Am Anfang : Chaim Potok. Aus dem Amerikan. von Margaret Carroux"
  • "Abŏji ŭi nara"
  • "Kezdetben : [regény]"@hu
  • "In the Beginning"@en
  • "Am Anfang"
  • "Na počátku"
  • "In the beginning family"
  • "In principio"@it
  • "In principio"
  • "In The Beginning"@en
  • "Am Anfang : Roman"
  • "Kezdetben"
  • "아버지의나라"
  • "In den beginne"

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