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	Chaim Potok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland.
		In 1965, Potok was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
		Potok is most famous for his 1967 novel The Chosen, which was also made into a film released in 1981, which won top award at the World Film Festival, Montreal, and later became a musical on Broadway for a short time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaim_Potok (395 words)

	Chaim Potok: Tutte le informazioni su Chaim Potok su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chaim Potok: Tutte le informazioni su Chaim Potok su Encyclopedia.it
		Potok divenne famoso nel 1967 con il racconto The Chosen, una storia quasi autobiografica su un brillante giovane figlio di un rabbino hassidico che si aspetta che il proprio figlio diventi anche lui rabbino.
		Potok naque nel Bronx newyorkese da ebrei immigrati dalla Polonia.
	www.encyclopedia.it /c/ch/chaim_potok.html (193 words)

	JVibe -->pop culture
		Chaim Potok has spent the majority of his life silently mapping the territory of his Jewish past through his novels that have captivated people into his fictional worlds because of their universal truths.
		Potok was born in New York City in 1929 in "a Hassidic world without the beard and earlocks." With a father who was a Belza Hassid and a mother who was a descendent of one of the four sons of Merisbah, his life was a combination of two streams of Hassidic dynasties.
		Potok has recently completed a book that departs from his habitual Jewish themes, and he added, "was a lot of fun to write and a real learning experience." He worked with virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern on his memoirs for three years.
	www.jvibe.com /popculture/potok.shtml (1107 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Chaim Potok
		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.
		Potok returned to the subject of Hasidism for a third time with the 1972 novel My Name is Asher Lev, the story of a young artist and his conflict with the traditions of his family and community.
		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, a 1996 chronicle of a Jewish family in the Soviet Union.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_chaim_potok.html (521 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . WEB EXCLUSIVE . Chaim Potok . July 26, 2002 \| PBS
		Potok said he was writing about a small and particular world, the world of the pious, ascetic Orthodox Jews; indeed he was the first American Jewish author who carried that set of beliefs and values and traditions and rituals, unlike the secular trio of Bellow, Malamud and Roth, to a mass audience.
		Chaim Potok was able to communicate to millions and millions of people, who were Jewish and non-Jewish, because he pursued the truth in his imagination, because he wrote from the inside, as a believer.
		Chaim was an oxymoron of a man-immersed in a faith community but disquieted by existential angst; charismatic and private; devoted to family and home and friends, yet repeatedly dragged off to spar in the brawl of the world.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week547/potok.html (3904 words)

	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.
		Potok continued to examine the conflict between secular and religious interests in his other novels as well, which include In the Beginning in 1975, The Book of Lights in 1981, and Davita's Harp in 1985.
		Potok also published several non-fiction works, including Wanderings: History of the Jews (1978), in which the author combines impressive scholarship with dramatic narrative, and The Gates of November, a 1996 chronicle of a Jewish family in the Soviet Union.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Potok.html (643 words)

	Chaim Potok
		Herman Harold Potok was born in New York City in Bronx as the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland.
		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.
		Potok received in 1965 his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, with dissertation on 'The Rationalism and Skepticism of Solomon Maimon'.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /potok.htm (1294 words)

	The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the story is taking place, many references are made to outside events, including World War Two, the Holocaust, and the founding of the state of Israel.
		Potok reveals the reactions of different groups to each of these events.
		Many themes common to Potok's works prevail such as weak women and children, strong father figures, intellectual characters, and the strength and validity of faith in a modern secular world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Chosen_(Chaim_Potok) (509 words)

	Seattle Scholar Gary Wolfstone Attends Chaim Potok Appearance
		Chaim Potok spoke for nearly one hour to a morning chapel group, including members of the public, in the Royal Brougham Pavillion at Seattle Pacific Univeristy on a cold, gray morning.
		Chaim is strikingly handsome with a full beard, and he projects a voice that is clear, cogent, and compelling.
		Chaim Potok explains the Hassidic tradition from which he emerged with its emphasis on scholarship (and more particularly the study of the Talmud), and without saying so explicitly, he makes it clear that his great novel, The Chosen, was undoubtedly autobiographical.
	www.wolfstonelaw.com /ChaimPotok.html (999 words)

	Mapping the Human Heart: Chaim Potok's The Chosen
		Chaim Potok says that he wrote The Chosen in order to come to terms with his own Jewish upbringing, particularly the fundamentalist viewpoint that taught him to see the Jewish race at the center of world history.
		As a boy, Potok had been taught to believe that paganism was evil, yet in the faces of devout Buddhists in prayer he saw the same intensity that he knew in the faces of the faithful Jews in his synagogue.
		Chaim began to question his assumption that Judaism was the only truth worth knowing and also his assumption that America was the only great nation.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /bestbooks/010517map.html (1590 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Potok explained, lay in the "core-to-core confrontation," his shorthand for the inevitable conflict that ensues when the ideology of a traditional culture comes into contact with fundamental elements of a modern culture.
		Potok's books can give a reader insight into the writer's world of tension, contradiction and resolution, there is much to be gained from the unfiltered voice of the writer himself.
		Potok argued that "in the Hebrew Bible there isn't a single mention of God as He, or She, or It truly is." To Mr.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.11.16/arts3.html (991 words)

	ClassZone.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chaim Potok was born in 1929 in the Bronx, New York.
		Potok graduated from Yeshiva University in 1950 with a B.A. degree in English literature.
		Potok's first published novel, The Chosen, and his subsequent novels reflect much of his own life, from the realistic portraits of New York's Jewish communities that he knew as a child to his deep commitments to scholarship and Judaism.
	www.classzone.com /novelguides/authors/potok.cfm (413 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Chaim Potok
		Potok grew up in a modern Orthodox form of Judaism - modern in the sense that men did not grow beards and were not expected to retain their earlocks.
		Potok grew up speaking Yiddish, and sometimes wrote as though English was not quite his native tongue.
		Potok was himself a painter of some gusto, and Lev's controversial Brooklyn Crucifixion - actually painted by Potok - was on display in his dining room.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,765922,00.html (912 words)

	CTV.ca \| Rabbi-turned-author Chaim Potok dead at 73
		Potok, who counted James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Ernest Hemingway among the authors who most inspired him, recalled that teachers at his Jewish parochial school were displeased with his taking time away from studying the Talmud by reading literature.
		Raised in the Orthodox tradition, Potok embraced Conservative Judaism as a young adult and was eventually ordained a Conservative rabbi in 1954.
		Potok graduated from Yeshiva University in 1950 with a degree in English, then attended the Jewish Theological Seminary and was ordained a rabbi four years later.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20020723/chaim_potok_dead_020723/Entertainment/story (679 words)

	Novelist Chaim Potok speaks at SPU
		Potok: I think that those are the ages where individuals from any given culture are profoundly affected by ideas that might come to them from other cultures.
		Potok: I teach at an Ivy League school, and I doubt that's representative of what is going on generally in the United States.
		Potok: Well, the fundamental theme that we have to address for the next century is how to create thinking, moral beings in the face of what will most definitely be a supreme technological age.
	www.spu.edu /depts/uc/response/Aut97/features/potok.html (2604 words)

	Jewish author Chaim Potok dies / 'The Chosen' was best-known novel
		Chaim Potok, an ordained rabbi and best-selling novelist whose fiction often probed the dueling personal and spiritual demands of Jewish faith versus those of secular American society, died Tuesday at his home in suburban Philadelphia.
		Born Feb. 17, 1929, in the East Bronx in New York City, Herman Harold Potok was the son of businessman Benjamin Max Potok and Mollie Friedman Potok, both Polish immigrants.
		Potok met his future wife, Adena Sarah Mosevitzky, a psychiatric social worker, at a summer camp where both were working as counselors.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/24/MN204927.DTL&type=printable (757 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Chaim Potok
		Chaim Potok, trained as a rabbi and an editor, became an international success with his beloved first novel, The Chosen, and over the following thirty-odd years gave us many other memorable works, both fiction and nonfiction.
		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. (Ilana Davita) Chandal.
		Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok’s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable—and remarkably loved—body of work.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/potok (198 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Novelist Chaim Potok dies
		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 son of immigrant Jewish parents, Mr Potok was sent to religious schools and developed a talent for writing at an early age.
		Sceptical of the incompatibility of modern literature and Orthodox Judaism, Mr Potok embraced the reformist conservative Judaism, and in 1954 was ordained as a conservative rabbi.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2147773.stm (456 words)

	Gazette: Obituaries: Chaim Potok (Jan/Feb 2003)
		Chaim Potok was internationally known for works that gave readers of all backgrounds an intimate look at Judaism, as well as a look back at the world from a Jewish perspective.
		Potok is rightly known for his skills as a writer, but his efficacy in the classroom deserves equal recognition.
		Potok, however—who was not one to waste learning time—unflinchingly used this exchange as a prelude to his own sweeping intellectual history, which divided thought into Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern time periods.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/0103/potok.html (1277 words)

	Potok, Chaim
		Herman Harold Potok was born to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Benjamin Max and Mollie Potok, on February 17, 1927 in New York City.
		Potok has often been recognized as one of the most influential Jewish-American authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
		Potok's autobiographically-based hero decides to isolate himself from his family to fulfill a desire to be an artist.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Potok__Chaim.html (805 words)

	Chaim Potok: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx The Bronx quick summary:
		Potok is most famous for his 1967 novel novel quick summary:
		The chosen is a book by chaim potok published in 1967....
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	Zebra and Other Storiesby Chaim Potok at Embracing the Child
		Chaim Potok spoke for nearly two hours to a extraordinarily mixed group ranging from elementary school children to senior citizens.
		Potok skillfully and gently tells these stories with a quiet respect for the audience and characters, forming no judgements; allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions.
		Chaim Potok was born and raised in New York City.
	www.embracingthechild.org /apotok.htm (338 words)

	FactsOfIsrael.com: Chaim Potok dies at the age of 73
		Chaim Potok, the distinguished author and scholar whose novels portrayed a vivid insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the United States, died on Tuesday at his home near Philadelphia, his family said.
		Potok was the first American author to present Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism in popular fiction written from the standpoint of a sympathetic insider, said David Stern, director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where Potok earned a doctorate in philosophy and taught as an adjunct professor.
		Potok remained in Philadelphia, serving as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society until he and his family moved to Israel for several years in the mid-1970s.
	www.factsofisrael.com /blog/archives/000220.html (1584 words)

	Conversations with Chaim Potok
		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.
		Potok often explores conflict in his writings and in his interviews.
		Although his novels and histories take place primarily in the recent past, the Chaim Potok that emerges from this collection is a writer deeply rooted in the tensions of the present.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2001/conv_with_chaim_potok.html (473 words)

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