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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Chosen quotation In the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok, at the end of book 3 chapter 14, the last paragraph says "That evening after my last class, I went to the school library and looked fo Rav Gershenson's mane in the Hebrew and English catalogues.
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 1985 edition listed the Ketuvim translation team as also including Saul Leeman, Chaim Potok, Martin Rozenberg, and David Shapiro. Since 2017, the bilingual Hebrew-English edition of the JPS Tanakh (1985 translation) has been digitalized and is available online on the website Sefaria. [3]
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