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“chaim potok”

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  • My Name Is Asher Lev

    by Chaim Potok ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic from the National Book Award–nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy.“A novel of finely articulated tragic power .... Little short of a work of genius.”—The New York Times Book Review**Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gift of Asher Lev

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    “Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel.”—The Cleveland Plain DealerIn 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 declared it “a story that had to be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Promise

    by Chaim Potok ...
    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, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Chosen

    by Chaim Potok ...
    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 TribuneIt’s the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • In the Beginning

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    “Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York TimesAll beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Davita's Harp

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy—and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless toll. And Davita, unexpectedly, finds in the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I Am the Clay

    A Novel

    by Chaim Potok ...
    “[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 ChronicleAs 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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Old Men at Midnight

    Stories

    by Chaim Potok ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Book of Lights

    by Chaim Potok ...
    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.... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Gates of November

    by Chaim Potok ...
    "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Wanderings

    by Chaim Potok ...
    A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok

    by Chaim Potok, David Bassuk, Carol Rocamora, Aaron Posner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD