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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 Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies, [1] [2] and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
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]
My Name Is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, an American author and rabbi. The book's protagonist is Asher Lev, a Hasidic Jewish boy in New York City. Asher is a loner with artistic inclinations. His art, however, causes conflicts with his family and other members of his community.
Chaim Potok, 73, American author, brain cancer. [117] Idrees Sulieman, 78, American bop and hard bop trumpeter, bladder cancer. Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company. [118]
The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. It is a sequel to Potok's novel My Name Is Asher Lev (1972). Plot summary.
For the Israeli hostages freed Saturday, the suffering did not end when Hamas militants paraded their frail and gaunt figures on a stage in Gaza ahead of their release to the Red Cross.
The parents of young California tech whistleblower Suchir Balaji, whose 2024 death was ruled a suicide, are now suing the City and County of San Francisco. Big Tech whistleblower's parents sue ...
In the Beginning is the 1975 fourth novel by Chaim Potok.The novel tells the story of David Lurie, an Orthodox Jewish boy from the Bronx growing up in the Great Depression of the 1930s up to the revealing of the fate of the Lurie family's relatives in Poland at the end of World War II.