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Potok Chaim
The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.... From the Paperback edition.
Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith--the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant--the struggles addressed in The Chosen are familiar to families of all faiths and in all nations. In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.)
My Name Is Asher Lev
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Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination. Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.
The Gift of Asher Lev
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"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year." THE DETROIT NEWS Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever.... From the Paperback edition.
The Promise
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Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders–now a psychologist with a growing reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael, Reuven and Danny each learns what it is to take on life–whether sacred truths or a troubled child–according to his own lights, not just established authority. In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one’s own way in the world
Old Men at Midnight (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark Builder,” he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in “The War Doctor,” her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors’ plot. And, finally, we meet her in “The Trope Teacher,” in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal. Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok’s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable—and remarkably loved—body of work. From the Hardcover edition.
Making Miracles: an interview with novelist Chaim Potok
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An excerpt from the Amazon Kindle collection "Encounters with Authors": * "Making Miracles: an interview with novelist Chaim Potok - a conversation with Chaim Potok, author of "The Chosen" and other novels, in which he discusses the "cultural confrontations" of art and religious fundamentalism
Potok Chaim News
Klezmer film and concert opens San Diego Jewish Arts Festival
Examiner.com - May 25, 2009
For festival information, contact San Diego Rep at 619-544-1000; for the closing event, a staged reading of My Name is Asher Lev, a new adaptation of the brilliant novel by Chaim Potok (May 29-30), contact North Coast Rep in Solana Beach at
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PORTRAIT/ Chaim Potok told by musician Jonathan Fields - Il Sussidiario.net
Il Sussidiario.net, Italy - May 07, 2009
Il Sussidiario.netPORTRAIT/ Chaim Potok told by musician Jonathan FieldsHis story recalls "Asher Lev", one of the great characters created by Chaim Potok, a Jewish writer from New York City, who died in 2002 and would have turned 80 by now. How did you and people from your generation get to know Potok's work?
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Wolpe's Greatest Lessons as a Rabbi and Teacher Were Meant To Be Heard - Forward
Forward, NY - May 20, 2009
Wolpe's Greatest Lessons as a Rabbi and Teacher Were Meant To Be Heard the movement's greatest teacher of pulpitry; David Goldstein, a founder of the Camp Ramah movement, and young scholars-in-residence Chaim Potok and Nahum Sarna — how to create a new synagogue and a new sensibility in the suburbs. By the mid 1980s,
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'A Love Story Between A Father And Son' - The Jewish Week
The Jewish Week, USA - May 12, 2009
'A Love Story Between A Father And Son'Readers may think back to “The Chosen,” Chaim Potok's 1967 novel set in the chasidic world of Brooklyn in the 1940s. Halberstam refers to that as a pioneering work, but points out that the chasidic world has changed considerably since then,
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Portland Center Stage Reshuffles 2009-10 Schedule; Bock, Schlitt ... - Playbill.com
Playbill.com, NY - May 19, 2009
Portland Center Stage Reshuffles 2009-10 Schedule; Bock, Schlitt Aaron Posner's adaptation of Chaim Potok's The Chosen, "an early strong seller" in the Studio lineup, will move to the Main Stage, replacing Joe Turner's Come and Gone, which will be deferred to future season. A possible Broadway tour of Thurgood,
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