21. Chaim Potok Criticism (Vol. 112) chaim potok 1929–. American novelist, nonfiction writer, children s writer, and essayist. The following entry presents an overview of potok s career through http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/potok-chaim-vol-112

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Chaim Potok Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Chaim Potok 1929– American novelist, nonfiction writer, children's writer, and essayist. The following entry presents an overview of Potok's career through 1996. For further information on his life and works, see CLC , Volumes 2, 7, 14, and 26. INTRODUCTION Potok is a Judaic scholar and ordained rabbi whose fiction consistently addresses important issues concerning Jewish religion and culture in contemporary American society. His best-selling novel, The Chosen (1967), and its sequel, The Promise (1969), won critical praise and a large popular audience. While most of his novels are steeped in Jewish theology, philosophy, and politics, his perceptive treatment of adolescent initiation, community dynamics, and intergenerational conflict transcend their settings to offer striking insight into the modern individual's search for spiritual meaning. Along with My Name Is Asher Lev (1972), the sequel

22. Chaim Potok 1929-2002 - Scholar, Rabbi, Author Of The Chosen, The Promise, My Na A look at the life of scholar, rabbi and author chaim potok, who died on July 23, 2002 in Merion, PA at the age of 73. http://philadelphia.about.com/library/weekly/blchaim_potok.htm

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25. Chaim Potok Quotes 30 quotes and quotations by chaim potok. chaim potok A nonfiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/chaim_potok.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Chaim Potok Quotes Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: February 17 Date of Death: July 23 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Chaim Potok Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller ... Susan Sontag A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Chaim Potok A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. Chaim Potok And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

26. Chaim Potok Interview With Don Swaim Listen to the chaim potok interview with Don Swaim in RealAudio on Wired for Books. http://wiredforbooks.org/chaimpotok/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Chaim Potok Rabbi and author of The Book of Lights, I Am The Clay and many others, Chaim Potok discusses his book, The Chosen , and the movie made from the book. Don and Chaim also discuss the anonymity and the ethnic groups of New York City, the city where Chaim was raised, educated and lived for many years. The Chosen is about an American traveling to Korea. These stories are pulled from his own experiences living in the region. The Book of Lights is a sort of sequel by demonstrating conflicts between the two cultures. In his newest novel at the time, Davita's Harp Listen to the Chaim Potok interview with Don Swaim, 1985, RealAudio (33 min. 39 sec.) MP3 File These files are for your personal use only. Classroom use is permitted. Redistribution is not permitted. Download Free RealPlayer or Search the RealPlayer Archives for a player that will work with older computers (note: version 5.0 or higher is required) For over a decade, many of the best writers of the English language found their way onto Don Swaim's daily two-minute CBS Radio show, Book Beat. His New York-based program was derived from longer interviews, sometimes 40-minutes in length. Found exclusively here, Wired for Books proudly webcasts these conversations in their entirety using RealAudio.

27. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Novelist Chaim Potok Dies Jewish American writer chaim potok, author of the bestselling novel The Chosen, dies at the age of 73. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2147773.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Entertainment: Arts News Front Page World ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Wednesday, 24 July, 2002, 00:24 GMT 01:24 UK Novelist Chaim Potok dies Potok was a prolific writer and scholar American writer Chaim Potok, whose books popularised the oft-reclusive world of Jewish orthodoxy, has died at the age of 73. He had been fighting brain cancer for the past two years. His work was a real landmark in the Americanisation of Judaism and also in the Judaising of American culture David Stern University of Pennsylvania Mr Potok was best known for his 1969 debut novel The Chosen, about the friendship between the son of a Hasidic rabbi and a secular Jewish boy in 1940s Brooklyn, New York. The book was considered a seminal work, which opened up the closed world of Orthodox Judaism to a wide audience. The Chosen was turned into a Hollywood film in 1981, and was followed by a sequel, The Promise, in 1969. "His work was a real landmark in the Americanisation of Judaism and also in the Judaising of American culture," said David Stern, director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

28. Chaim Potok: Interview: Hopkins Gazette Born in the Bronx to Polish immigrants just monthsbefore the start of the Great Depression, chaim potok grew upin an Orthodox Jewish home where his http://www.lasierra.edu/~ballen/potok/Potok.interviews.JHU.html

Johns Hopkins University Gazette Interview With Chaim Potok Back to menu Back to interview menu Johns Hopkins University Gazette November 14, 1984 Potok Has Chosen to Create Worlds from Words with Mike Field Born in the Bronx to Polish immigrants just monthsbefore the start of the Great Depression, Chaim Potok grew upin an Orthodox Jewish home where his businessman father, "agreat admirer of the capitalist system," discouraged hisson's early aptitude for painting in favor of a morepractical occupation. Potok received rabbinic ordination in1954 and a doctorate in Western philosophy in 1965, but,other than a two-year stint as a chaplain on the front linesin Korea, he chose not to make religion his avocation. Instead, he turned his talents to writing. In 1967 hepublished The Chosen, a novel that examined value systems inconflict and won Potok a worldwide audience. Seven othermajor novels have followed, including The Promise and My NameIs Asher Lev. This fall, Potok joined the Writing Seminars program asa visiting professor, where he teaches an undergraduatecourse in fiction writing. Q: I've read that in 1945 at the age of 15 or 16 youread Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and decided tobecome a writer. Is this story true?

29. Chaim Potok: My Name Is Asher Lev: Reading The Novel As A Work Of Postmodern Fic chaim potok s award winning bestseller, My Name is Asher Lev, captures the heart of readers and stands as a great work of postmodern fiction. http://modern-american-fiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/chaim_potok_my_name_is_a

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30. Chaim Potok - Obituaries, News - Independent.co.uk Herman Harold potok (chaim potok), rabbi and novelist born New York 17 February 1929; ordained rabbi 1954; married 1958 Adena Mosevitzky (one son, http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article172395.ece

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31. Chaim Potok @Web English Teacher Lesson plans and teaching resources for The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, more. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/potok.html

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32. Chaim Potok - Authors - Random House chaim potok was born in the Bronx in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24358

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34. Conversations With Chaim Potok One of America s most popular Jewish writers, chaim potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/144

African American Studies All titles Upcoming titles Home ... Home Search By Author By Series By Subject By Title ... Your Cart Conversations with Chaim Potok Edited by Daniel Walden 200 pp. 1-57806-345-0 Unjacketed cloth $50.00S 1-57806346-9 Paper $20.00T Unjacketed cloth, $50.00 Paper, $20.00 "Writing at its best is an exalted state, an unlocking of the unconscious and imagination and a contact with sanctity." One of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen The Promise The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls "core-to-core culture confrontation." Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world-class Judaic scholar who has also published children's books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories. Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999. Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels-in particular, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -on his work. Interviews bear witness to Potok's many other influences-Orthodox Jewish doctrine, Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Picasso's Guernica, and Jewish kabbalah mysticism.

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36. Chaim Potok Wanderings chaim potok s History of the Jews (1978) The Book of Lights (1981, novel) Davita s Harp (1985, novel) Theo Tobiasse (1986) http://www.nndb.com/people/434/000115089/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Chaim Potok AKA Herman Harold Potok Born: 17-Feb Birthplace: New York City Died: 23-Jul Location of death: Merion, PA Cause of death: Cancer - Brain Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Chosen Military service: US Army (1955-57, Chaplain, Korean War) Father: Benjamin Max (jeweler, d. 1958) Mother: Mollie Friedman (d. 1985) Wife: Adena Sarah Mosevitzsky (social worker, m. 8-Jun-1958, three children) Daughter: Rosa (possibly Rena?, b. 1962) Daughter: Naama Son: Akiva University: Yeshiva University, New York City (1950) Theological: Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1954) University: PhD Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (1965) Teacher: University of Judaism (1957-59) Polish Ancestry FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR The Chosen (Aug-1981) Author of books: Jewish Ethics , 14 vols.) The Chosen , novel) The Promise , novel) My Name is Asher Lev , novel) In the Beginning , novel) The Jew Confronts Himself in American Literature Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews The Book of Lights , novel) Davita's Harp , novel) Theo Tobiasse The Gift of Asher Lev , novel) I Am the Clay The Tree of Here The Sky of Now The Gates of November Zebra and Other Stories Old Men at Midnight Do you know something we don't?

37. Chaim Potok A bibliography of chaim potok s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/chaim-potok/

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Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP CHAIM POTOK DVD VHS CD IMDb ... Chaim Potok Biography Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography other works publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Biography for Chaim Potok advertisement photos board add contact details Date of Birth 17 February The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA Date of Death 23 July , Merion, Pennsylvania, USA (cancer) Birth Name Herman Harold Potok Mini Biography Born in New York City but raised in Philadelphia, Chaim Potok ("Chaim Tzvi") was raised in a Hasidic family. His father immigrated from Poland in 1921 where he married and had two sons (both rabbis) and two daughters (both of whom married rabbis). Chaim balanced his interest in traditional Jewish studies, which pleased his father, with his personal interest in American and European literature. He also had an interest in painting. Chaim rebelled from his Hasidic youth and following graduation from Yeshiva University where he received a BA in English, attended the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary in New York where he earned his Master's of Hebrew Literature and rabbinical ordination. In 1965 he earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

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