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Title: Introduction to Chaim Potok, The Chosen


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Introduction to Chaim Potok, The Chosen
  • Born February 17, 1929 in New York City, N.Y.
  • Parents Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie
    (Friedman) Potok (d.1985).
  • Father immigrated from Poland to the U.S. in 1921
    and sold stationary before the depression and was
    a jeweler afterword.
  • Wife Adena Sara Mosevitzsky, married June 8,
    1958. The Potok's met at Camp Ramah (Poconos) in
    1952. Adena is a psychiatric social worker.
  • Children Rena, Naama, Akiva.
  • Siblings Brother became a rabbi, both sisters
    married rabbis.
  • CHILDHOOD
  • "I grew up. . .in a Hassidic world without the
    beard and the earlocks." (NY Times 1/3/88)
  • Potok started writing fiction at the age of 16.
    His first submission was to the Atlantic Monthly
    at the age of 17 (the piece was not published,
    but Potok received a complimentary note from an
    editor asking if he was writing a novel).

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  • The Chosen, 1967
  • The Promise, 1969
  • My Name is Asher Lev, 1972
  • In the Beginning, 1975
  • The Book of Lights, 1981
  • Davita's Harp, 1985
  • The Gift of Asher Lev, 1990
  • I Am the Clay, 1992
  • EDUCATION
  • Talmudic Academy of Yeshiva College (University).
  • Yeshiva University (B.A., summa cum laude, in
    English Literature, 1950).
  • Jewish Theological Seminary of America (M.H.L.
    and rabbinic ordination, 1954).
  • University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in philosophy,
    1965). RESIDENCE
  • Merion, PA, U.S.A.

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