Chaim Potok
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today.
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
"Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." —Chicago Tribune
It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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“Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable character and a timeless story that The New York Times Book Review hailed as “little short of a work of genius.” The Chicago Sun-Times...
In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable character and a timeless story that The New York Times Book Review hailed as “little short of a work of genius.” The Chicago Sun-Times...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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“[Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page.”—San Francisco Chronicle
As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come...
As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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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...
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...
5) The Promise
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
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.
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
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Gershon Loran, a quiet rabinical student, is troubled by the dark reality around him. He sees hope in the study of Kabbalah, the Jewish book of mysticism and visions, truth and light. But to Gershon's friend, Arthur, light means something else, the Atom bomb, his father helped create. Both men seek different a refuge in a foreign place, hoping for the same thing....
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Language
Español
Description
Para Davita Chandal, crecer en Nueva York en las décadas de 1930 y 1940 es a la vez una experiencia de alegría indescriptible y de inconmensurable tristeza. Sus amorosos padres, ambos fervientes militantes comunistas, la contagian con el brillo feroz de la esperanza de un mundo nuevo y mejor. Pero las privaciones de la guerra y la Depresión se cobran su implacable peaje.
Inesperadamente, Davita encuentra en la fe judía —que hace largo tiempo...
Author
Language
English
Description
While Chaim Potok is most famous for his novels, particularly his first book The Chosen (1967)-which was listed on The New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3, 400, 000 copies-he also wrote plays, which are collected and published here for the first time. Rena Potok edited the collection and wrote the introduction. This book features all five of Potok's plays, production notes on each of the plays, prefaces by the directors,...