In Chaim Potok’s novel The Chosen, the young, intelligent Danny Saunders finds it difficult to follow in the footsteps of his father, the Hasidic rabbi Reb Saunders. Not only does he refuse to ...
"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 ...
On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth, “This Is My God” by Herman Wouk ...
Gottlieb saw the potential in Chaim Potok’s book, thinking it might introduce gentile readers and secular Jews like himself to the world of Orthodoxy while telling a universal story about ...