Davita's Harp Summary
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok "wrote of what he knew best, Jewish-Americans in the 20th century struggling with two contradictory yet valid points of view," according to Shirley Saad writing for the United Press Intern... Read more

Chaim Potok, rabbi and critical scholar of Judaic texts, has demonstrated in his literary career that the American novel is indeed a viable genre for writing about Jewish theology, liturgy, history, a... Read more

In the following review, the critic gives a mixed evaluation of Davita's Harp. The earnest radicalism of the 1930s has become familiar terrain for fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the f... Read more

In the following review, Grenier praises the "genuine seriousness and moral complexity" of Davita's Harp, but finds shortcomings in Potok's "stiff dialogue and stilt... Read more