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, and scholarship. He has brought to American fiction a f...

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, and scholarship. He has brought to American fiction a f...

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 International. In such popular and award-winning books as Th...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok Chaim Potok was born in 1929 in the Bronx, New York, the child of Hasidic parents who had fled Eastern Europe. After graduating from Yeshiva University in 1950, he went on to study for the Conservative rabbinate at the Jewish...

The Chosen is the bestselling book by Chaim Potok published in 1967. It is about two teenage Jewish boys who form a friendship, though they come from different worlds. It is a first-person narrative from the point of view of Reuven Malter. It consists...

Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer Transferring literature from the realm of imagination to the reality of theater always bears a risk. Consider "The Great Gatsby," which onstage asks us to substitute mere humanity for our mind's mythic inventions. Having read the script...

Novelist and scholar Chaim Potok was born in the Bronx on February 17, 1929 and died in Merion, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 2002. His novels were extremely popular; his first book, The Chosen, was on the best-seller list for more than six months....

A lawyer for the city's first black district attorney told a federal appeals court Monday that jurors who decided he discriminated in firing dozens of white employees had too little evidence to reach that conclusion.When Eddie Jordan took over from longtime District Attorney Harry Connick...

LeBron James is treating his appearance on the 'Saturday Night Live' season premiere like a fast break."I'm going to just wing it," the Cavaliers All-Star forward said Thursday during a rehearsal break.James is practicing this week with his new teammates at 'SNL,' where he'll become...

In the following excerpt, Abramson provides an overview of the major themes, characters, and narrative presentation in The Chosen.

The conflict in Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen functions at several levels. These are: the generational conflict; the temperamental; the conflict between head and heart; the opposition between a petrified fanaticism and a humane tolerance; and, finally, the split between two visions of God and man's relationship to Him. Of all of these, however, it is the opposition between the head and the heart which predominates…. Although much of the story's direction is determined by the con...

In the following review, Hicks offers praise for The Chosen, which he describes as "a fine, moving, gratifying book."

Discusses various aspects of "The Chosen" and the related readings included in the back of some of "The Chosen" editions.

A comparison between the lives of the two boys in "My Name is Asher Lev" and "The Chosen" as pertaining to religious life in the family.

Essay reviews the identity formation of Danny Saunders in the book "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok. It also looks at James Marcia's steps to identity development.