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| Name: |
Chaim Potok | | Birth Date: |
February 17, 1929 | | Death Date: |
July 23, 2002 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Merion, Pennsylvania, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Chaim Potok
8421 words, approx. 28.1 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of Chaim Potok
7727 words, approx. 25.8 pages
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... summary from source:
 Biography of Chaim Potok
4899 words, approx. 16.3 pages
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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Chosen Summary
4,069 words, approx. 14 pagesThe 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... summary from source:
 The Chosen Information
1,570 words, approx. 5 pages
 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...
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 The Washington Post Rabbi, Best-Selling Author Chaim Potok Dies
07/24/2002: 950 words, approx. 3 pages Chaim Potok, 73, the best-selling author and rabbi who wrote of conflict and tension between fathers and sons, the old and the new, tradition and change, and the spiritual and the secular in such widely known novels as "The Chosen" and "My Name Is... summary from source:
The Washington Post 'The Chosen,' Opting to Play It Safe
01/13/2001: 583 words, approx. 2 pages Silence is a devastating force in Chaim Potok's 1967 novel, "The Chosen," but the stage version of the play now at Theater J has the easygoing chattiness and mellow incidental music of a run-of-the- mill TV movie. "The Chosen" is about deep philosophical differences,... summary from source:
 AP News Orleans DA fights discrimination ruling
4/2/2007: 378 words, approx. 1 pagesA 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... summary from source:
AP News LeBron live from New York
9/27/2007: 340 words, approx. 1 pagesLeBron 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...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Edward A. Abramson
8,984 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following excerpt, Abramson provides an overview of the major themes, characters, and narrative presentation in The Chosen.
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Critical Essay by Sam Bluefarb
1,759 words, approx. 6 pages
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... summary from source:
Critical Review by Granville Hicks
1,130 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Hicks offers praise for The Chosen, which he describes as "a fine, moving, gratifying book."
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%The Chosen, and Related Readings
2,017 words, approx. 7 pages
Discusses various aspects of "The Chosen" and the related readings included in the back of some of "The Chosen" editions. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 96%Religious Appreciation of Family Life
1,239 words, approx. 4 pages
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. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%The Chosen
1,161 words, approx. 4 pages
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.
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