The Promise Summary
Chaim Potok

The Promise Summary

Chaim Potok wrote The Promise in 1969 as a sequel to his previous novel The Chosen. The two main characters of the previous novel are Reuven Malter, an Orthodox Jew in the process of becoming a rabbi and his childhood friend Daniel Saunders, a Hasidic Jew who broke tradition by becoming a psychologist rather than following in his father's footsteps as a Rebbe. The Promise expands on this relationship and introduces others...

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