ellauri106.html on line 122: Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933, and grew up at 81 Summit Avenue in the Weequahic neighborhood. He was the second child of Bess (née Finkel) and Herman Roth, an insurance broker. Roth's family was Jewish, and his parents were second-generation Americans. Roth's father's parents came from Kozlov near Lviv (then Lemberg) in Austrian Galicia; his mother's ancestors were from the region of Kyiv in Ukraine. Viulunsoittajia katolta.
ellauri106.html on line 124: He graduated from Newark´s Weequahic High School in or around 1950. In 1969 Arnold H. Lubasch wrote in The New York Times, "It has provided the focus for the fiction of Philip Roth, the novelist who evokes his era at Weequahic High School in the highly acclaimed Portnoy´s Complaint. Besides identifying Weequahic High School by name, the novel specifies such sites as the Empire Burlesque, the Weequahic Diner, the Newark Museum and Irvington Park, all local landmarks that helped shape the youth of the real Roth and the fictional Portnoy, both graduates of Weequahic class of ´50." The 1950 Weequahic Yearbook calls Roth a "boy of real intelligence, combined with wit and common sense." He was known as a clown during high school.
ellauri109.html on line 529: Weequahic High at the time graduated more doctors, lawyers, dentists, and accountants than practically any other school in the country. And then Philip had to become and English major because he was not good enough for law.
ellauri351.html on line 451: Hänen äitinsä ja isoäitinsä kasvattivat hänet suuressa juutalaisyhteisössä. Hän osallistui Weequahic High Schooliin Newarkissa, nelivuotisessa valtion koulussa, jossa on useita satoja opiskelijoita, ja valmistui luokan valmentajaksi, huippuoppilaaksi. Hän jatkoi Columbia Collegessa, jossa hän suoritti neljän vuoden kurssit kolmessa. Hän valmistui, vaikka ei läpäissyt vaadittua uintikoetta.
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