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"The Chosen," an intellectually and spiritually exciting story about two Jewish teens in Brooklyn, is firmly set in the 1940s, with World War II, the Holocaust, the Zionist movement and the creation ...

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The four ferociously intelligent characters in "The Chosen" spend much of their time in forms of verbal jousting, from friendly scholarly disputation to deeply personal argument. But their conflicts ...

Chaim Potok was to the tenets and vicissitudes of Judaism as Eli Wiesel was to the Holocaust. Each man pursued his personal obsession with unflagging intensity, to a total of 57 books by Elie Wiesel ...

WHAT: Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok's play from Potok's novel about clashing cultures within postwar American Judaism, the inaugural production of the newly formed Jewish Repertory Theater of Western ...

An early hit for the “Jew who knows nothing about Jewishness” was a novel about two Orthodox Jewish boys. (JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and ...

Chaim Potok was an incredibly gifted writer. "My Name Is Asher Lev," an intricate story of conflicts in morality and social acceptance versus personal desires, is one worth telling to an audience. But ...