Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi.Potok is most famous for his 1967 novel The Chosen which was a semi-autobiographical story about an exceptionally brilliant, young son of a Hasidic rabbi who expects his son to also become a rabbi.
Herman Harold Potok was born in the New York Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. Following tradition, his parents also gave him a Hebraic name, Chaim Tvzi; "Chaim" is the Hebrew word for "life". His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies.
After receiving an M.A. in Hebrew literature, and his later rabbinic ordination, Potok joined the U.S. Army as a chaplain, where he spent over a year in the Korean war.
Potok edited Conservative Judaism and also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society. In 1965, Potok was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
In Merion, Pennsylvania[?], on 23 July, 2002, Chaim Potok, who had been suffering from cancer, passed away.
Bibliography
- The Chosen (1967)
- The Promise (1969)
- My Name is Asher Lev (1972)
- The Book of Lights
- The Gift of Asher Lev (1990)
- Davita's Harp
- I Am the Clay (1992)
- The Tree of Here (1993)
- The Sky of Now (1994)
- The Gates of November (1996)
- Zebra and Other Stories (1998)
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External links:
- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/potok.htm (contains bibliography)
- http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/3724245.htm
- http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/P/Potok,_Chaim/
- http://www.lasierra.edu/~ballen/potok/
- http://www.lasierra.edu/%7Eballen/potok/menu.html
- Notes on The Chosen (http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/potok1311-des-.html)
variance with her husband in almost every matter of policy dear to his
Inquisition; but when she failed to get her way, she was still able to
and with happiness. If she had a fault it was the common one of being
was rarely allowed to disturb the balance of her judgment. She liked
science, fostered all learned institutions, and delighted in the details
could equally adorn a Court drawing-room or a field of battle; for she
ermine. Firm, constant, clever, alert, a little given to fussiness
some approach to grandeur of soul: so much we may say truly of her inner
dignified and graceful carriage, eyes of a clear summer blue, and the red
grandmother.
Ferdinand of Aragon appears not quite so favourably in our pages, for he
consented to the expedition he did so with only half a heart, and against
extremely courageous, and according to our modern notions, an extremely
which we can accept nowadays. He thought nothing of going back on a
with his cabinets, and stopped at nothing in order to get his way; he had
and cared very little for glory. A very capable man; so capable that in
so capable that he used his weaknesses of character to strengthen and
in his judgments, of wide understanding and grasp of affairs; simple and
splendour; extremely industrious, and close in his observations and
sturdy and athletic, face burned a brick red with exposure to the sun and
unkindly mouth; a voice sharp and unmelodious, issuing in quick fluent
successors, the title of "Most Catholic Majesty."
midst of her interviews with nobles and officers, contractors and state
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