6/30/2023 0 Comments In the beginning potokWith the coming of wax, the boy's oedipal problems are compounded by his attraction to the secular branch of Bible study in which German scholars formed the vanguard. David's father works to secure the immigration of family and friends still in Europe but loses everything in the Depression while sickly, bookish David begins by dodging the malevolent goyim in his Bronx neighborhood and demonstrates a precocious gift for Scripture. Chaim Potok continues his saga of the American sojourn of the Chosen People with this portrait of the education of David Lurie-namesake of his gentle and beautiful uncle dead in a Polish pogrom, son of a fiercely militant Zionist organizer-as he learns what his "job" in the service of the Jews will be.
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