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The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator, Reuven Malter, and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise, was published in 1969. [1] [2] [3]
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi.Of the more than a dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times’ bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies, [1] [2] and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
As Potok did in his novel, Posner takes pains to ensure that culturally specific words and traditions are clear in context. People who know a little Yiddish will enjoy the sprinkling of that ...
Written by Potok and veteran theater artist Aaron Posner, who also directs the Rep production, "The Chosen" plunges us deeply into the New York Jewish world of the 1940s. Two worlds, really: The ...
The Chosen is a 1981 American drama film directed by Jeremy Kagan, based on the best-selling book of the same name by Chaim Potok, published in 1967. It stars Robby Benson , Barry Miller , Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger .
The Chosen (Potok novel), a 1967 novel by Chaim Potok; The Chosen, a 1997 novel by L. J. Smith; The Chosen (Pinto novel), a 1999 novel by Ricardo Pinto; The Chosen (Karabel book), a book by Jerome Karabel; Chosen (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker; Chosen, a novel in the House of Night fantasy series
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The Promise is a novel written by Chaim Potok, published in 1969.It is a sequel to his previous novel The Chosen.Set in 1950s New York, it continues the saga of the two friends, Reuven Malter, a Modern Orthodox Jew studying to become a rabbi, and Danny Saunders, a genius Hasidic Jew who has broken with his sect's tradition by refusing to take his father's place as rebbe in order to become a ...