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Chaim Potok
Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently…
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Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion . Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn…
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In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one’s own way in the world.
Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn…
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First publication of the complete plays of Chaim Potok. With the exception of the The Chosen, none have been previously available.
Daniel Walden
Chaim Potok’s novels explore the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization. Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to…
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From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men–stories that encompass…
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The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically…
This stunning departure for the beloved author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev is a powerful story of love and war in Korea. An old peasant farmer…
The daughter of a nonbelieving Jewish mother and a nonbelieving gentile father–dedicated Communists both–Davita Chandal, growing up as the world suffers through the Spanish Civil War and World War II…
The father is a man who survived Stalin’s purges. The son is a refusenik who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now Chaim Potok…
Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational ‘Brooklyn Crucifixion.’ Into it her poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of…
In the continuation of one of Potok’s best-known books, we find Lev called back to Brooklyn from France–and once again forced to make a choice between the sacred and the…
The National Jewish Book Award-winning novel records the anguish, dreams, and triumphs of Asher Lev, a talented young painter raised in a cloistered Hasidic community in Brooklyn, as he struggles…
Sanford Sternlicht
By examining in depth not only the spiritual elements but also the literary components that make works such as My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) best-sellers, this Critical Companion helps…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Chaim Potok’s Davita’s Harp, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Isaac Stern,Chaim Potok
Isaac Stern shares his personal and his artistic experiences in this book: the story of his rise to eminence; his feelings about music and the violin; his great friendships and…
Milton Steinberg
The magnificent work of modern fiction that brings the age of the Talmud to life. The characters include the well-known historical figures: Akiba, Yohanan, Joshua, Eleazar, Beruriah, and Elisha ben…
A Study Guide for Chaim Potok’s My Name Is Asher Lev, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
