1. Chaim Potok - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland. His Hebrew name was Chaim Tzvi. He received an Orthodox Jewish education, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok

Chaim Potok From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Chaim Potok Born February 17 Bronx , New York Died July 23 Merion Pennsylvania , U.S. Occupation Novelist, Rabbi Nationality United States Genres Literary fiction Debut works The Chosen Chaim Potok February 17 July 23 ) was an American Jewish author and rabbi Contents Biography Literary career Published works References ... edit Biography Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), Jewish immigrants from Poland . His Hebrew name was Chaim Tzvi. He received an Orthodox Jewish education , but decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited In 1950, Potok graduated Yeshiva University with a B.A. summa cum laude , in English Literature . After receiving a master's degree in Hebrew literature , and his later rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , Potok joined the U.S. Army as a chaplain. He served in South Korea from 1955 to 1957. He described his time in South Korea as being a transformative experience. Brought up to believe that the Jewish people were central to history and God 's plans, he experienced a region where there were almost no Jews and no

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Chaim Potok Chaim Potok, born Herman Harold Potok, February 17, 1929, in Brooklyn, NY, was the son of Polish immigrants who had strong ties to Hasidism and was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home. In an interview Potok said, "I prayed in a little shtiebel [prayer room], and my mother is a descendant of a great Hasidic dynasty and my father was a Hasid, so I come from that world." After reading Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited when he was a teenager, Potok decided to become a writer. Riveted by the world of upper-class British Catholics that Waugh brings to life in the novel, Potok realized for the first time that fiction had the power "to create worlds out of words on paper." To learn how to write, Potok carefully studied the novels of such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain. Over a period of five years, he spent most of his free time reading the novels of great writers. At the same time, he became fascinated by less restrictive Jewish doctrines, particularly the

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Chaim Potok (1929-) Chaim Potok Chaim Potok, born Herman Harold Potok, was the son of Polish immigrants and was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home. He was born in February of 1929 in New York City, where he attended religious schools. However, as a young man he became fascinated by less restrictive Jewish doctrines, particularly the Conservative side of Judaism. He attended Yeshiva University and graduated summa cum laude in English literature in 1950 before moving on to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. Potok then taught at several Jewish colleges, including the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, before moving on to become the managing editor of Conservative Judaism in 1964. Potok spent a year in Israel completing his doctoral dissertation on philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 and the following year he became the editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America, which he remained for eight years before becoming a special-projects editor of the publication in 1974. Throughout his career in publishing, Dr. Potok wrote numerous popular articles and reviews. Potok began his career as an author and novelist in 1967 with the publication of The Chosen , which stands as the first book from a major publisher to portray Orthodox Judaism in the United States. With its story about the friendship between the son of a Hasidic rabbi and a more secularly-minded Jewish boy in Brooklyn

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About ClassZone eServices Web Research Guide Contact Us ... Online Store Language Arts: Novel Guides Home Language Arts Novel Guides Author Profiles Chaim Potok Chaim Potok was born in 1929 in the Bronx, New York. He was the oldest of four children in his family. Like Reuven Malter in The Chosen, Potok was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and attended a yeshiva, a Jewish religious school. His parents were Polish immigrants who had strong ties to Hasidism. In an interview Potok said, "I prayed in a little shtiebel [prayer room], and my mother is a descendant of a great Hasidic dynasty and my father was a Hasid, so I come from that world." After reading Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited when he was a teenager, Potok decided to become a writer. Riveted by the world of upper-class British Catholics that Waugh brings to life in the novel, Potok realized for the first time that fiction had the power "to create worlds out of words on paper." His parents, his Talmud teachers, and his peers disapproved of his interest in writing fiction, however, because many fundamentalist Jews regarded the arts as a waste of time and a distraction from serious study. As Potok told an interviewer, his mother said, "You want to write stories? That's very nice. You be a brain surgeon, and on the side you write stories."

5. Chaim Potok --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Chaim Potok American rabbi and author whose novels introduced to American fiction the spiritual and cultural life http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9104717/Chaim-Potok

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6. Chaim Potok - Book Lust Chaim Potok (19292002) is mentioned in Book Lust on p. 134. If you enjoyed his first and most well-known novel, The Chosen, then you should read its sequel http://booklust.wetpaint.com/page/Chaim Potok

A Wetpaint Wiki Sign in to Wetpaint Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy! Chaim Potok Chaim Potok (1929-2002) is mentioned in Book Lust on p. 134. If you enjoyed his first and most well-known novel, The Chosen , then you should read its sequel, The Promise . In fact, I would say that most or all of his books are "too good to miss". He writes from the point of view of orthodox Judaism, and the majority of his books are set in New York city, but they explore themes which apply to a wider readership - the attempt to reconcile religion and the modern world (particularly with regard to scholarship or art), and family dynamics, especially between parents and children. The Chosen The Promise (1969) - sequel to The Chosen My Name is Asher Lev (1972) - about an artist (Potok himself was an accomplished painter and painted one of the works which Asher Lev is said to paint in this novel) In the Beginning (1975) - his most autobiographical novel The Book of Lights (1981) - begins exploring the wider world (beyond Judaism, an exploration continued in I am the Clay The Gift of Asher Lev (1990) - sequel to My Name is Asher Lev I am the Clay (1992) - set in Korea, quite different from his previous novels

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8. Chaim Potok Chaim Potok is a rabbi and author whose novels depict the life and culture of Orthodox Jews. Potok s works in the 1980s have been autobiographical. http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/cfs2/chaim_potok.php

Volume I Cambridge Forum Speakers Home Supplemental Reading Harvard Square Library Home More Speakers See All 185 Speakers Adelman, Morris Allison, Graham Arbatov, Georgi ... Young, Andrew Chaim Potok Chaim Potok Chaim Potok is a rabbi and author whose novels depict the life and culture of Orthodox Jews. Potok's works in the 1980s have been autobiographical. Throughout his publishing career Potok has written scholarly and popular articles and reviews. A central theme in Potok's novels is the tension between Judaism and the values and culture of modern society. Herman Harold Potok was born in New York City in the Bronx as the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Potok received his M.A. in Hebrew literature. At the age of 25 he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. Between the years 1955 and 1957 he was a chaplain with the US Army, more than fifteen months of his service being in Korea with a front-line medical battalion and an engineering combat battalion. This experience provided material for Potok's novels, The Book of Lights (1981) and I Am The Clay As a novelist Potok made his debut with The Chosen (1967), a story about rivalry and friendship between a progressive Orthodox Jewish scholar and a young Hasid. The book became a best-seller. The novel was on

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document.writeln(AAMB1); Potok, Chaim Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Chaim Potok orig. Herman Harold Potok born Feb. 17, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S. died July 23, 2002, Merion, Pa. U.S. rabbi and novelist. The son of Polish immigrants, he was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home and was ordained a Conservative rabbi. He taught until he began a career as an editor and writer of scholarly and popular articles and reviews in the 1960s. His novels, which have introduced to American fiction the spiritual and cultural life of Orthodox Jews, include The Chosen (1967; film, 1981), The Promise (1969), and My Name Is Asher Lev (1972). Three connected novellas, Old Men at Midnight , appeared in 2001. Notable among Potok's nonfiction writings are Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (1978), in which the author combines impressive scholarship with dramatic narrative, and The Gates of November (1996), a chronicle of a Soviet Jewish family and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. document.writeln(AAMB2);

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17. Chaim Potok - Wikipedia Translate this page Potok naque nel Bronx newyorkese da ebrei immigrati dalla Polonia. Secondo la tradizione i genitori gli diedero pure un nome ebraico (Chaim Tvzi, http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok

Chaim Potok Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Vai a: Navigazione cerca Herman Harold Potok New York 17 febbraio Merion Pennsylvania ... 23 luglio ) noto come Chaim Potok , ¨ stato uno scrittore statunitense , nonch© un rabbino Divenne famoso nel con il racconto The Chosen (Danny l'eletto), una storia quasi autobiografica su un brillante giovane figlio di un rabbino hassidico desideroso che il proprio figlio diventi anch'egli rabbino. La notoriet  gli venne anche dalla trasposizione cinematografica del romanzo proiettata nel Potok naque nel Bronx newyorkese da ebrei immigrati dalla Polonia . Secondo la tradizione i genitori gli diedero pure un nome ebraico ( Chaim Tvzi Chaim significa vita in ebraico). L'educazione ortodossa gli insegn² sia il Talmud che conoscenze secolari. Dopo la laurea in letteratura ebraica e la successiva nomina a rabbino, Potok venne arruolato come cappellano nell'esercito statunitense, dove vi rimase per oltre un anno nella guerra di Corea Divenne editore di Conservative Judaism e della Jewish Publication Society . Nel ricevette il Ph.D dall'

18. Chaim Potok - Wikiquote Jump to navigation, search. 172.201.48.190 1920, 7 November 2007 (UTC)Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (192902-17 - 2002-07-23) was an American author and rabbi. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chaim_Potok

Chaim Potok From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search 19:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok ) was an American author and rabbi. This article on an author is a stub . You can help Wikiquote by edit Sourced edit The Chosen Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? ... I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives the span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant... A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work to fill one's life with meaning. That I do not think you understand yet. A life filled with meaning is worthy of rest. I want to be worthy of rest when I am no longer here. [David Malter, to his son, Reuven. p. 217] You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own. [Danny Saunders to Reuven Malter]

19. Potok.HomePage.html With the publication of The Chosen in 1967, chaim potok entered the American literary scene and has grown in stature with subsequent publications. http://potok.lasierra.edu/

Next Page Photograph by Brad Wilson With the publication of The Chosen in 1967, Chaim Potok entered the American literary scene and has grown in stature with subsequent publications. This resource is designed to make Potok's work known and appreciated by an ever larger audience. The material has been produced by Interneteur William M. Allen, PhD, on the campus of La Sierra University, Riverside, California, USA. I thank Rabbi Potok for his assistance and for the materials he has provided to get this work underway. Notice: It is with great sadness we announce that Dr. William M. Allen passed on Sunday night April 24th, 2005. This site status will remain static for the present time. It is our hope to continue to provide this resource for others researching Rabbi Potok in perpetuity. - The La Sierra University IT Department. Please forward any suggestions for improvement of this resource, including the location of information for inclusion, your personal comments or stories about Rabbi Potok, your favorite quotations from Potok's works, or suggested links to webmaster at lasierra.edu

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Chaim Potok (1929-2002) - original name Herman Harold Potok Rabbi and author whose novels depict the life and culture of Orthodox Jews. Potok's works in the 1980s have been autobiographical. Throughout his publishing career Potok has written scholarly and popular articles and reviews. Central theme in Potok's novels is the tensions between Judaism and the values and culture of modern society. '"Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them - 'ordinary things' is a better expression. That is the way the world is."' (from The Chosen Herman Harold Potok was born in New York City in Bronx as the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. Following traditions, Potok's parents also gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tvzi (Chaim means "life" or "alive"). His father, Benjamin Max Potok, was a jeweler and watchmaker. As a child Potok received primary education in Jewish schools where he studied required secular subjects but also the Talmud, the center of the curriculum. Potok's upbringing, Orthodox if not quite Hasidic, has been inspiration for several of his novels, which are set in Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx. When drawing and painting was considered in the Orthodox community a violation of the Second Commandment and a waste of time, Potok focused on writing. He read works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, and Evelyn Waugh, whose novel

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