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CHAIM POTOK (Potok, Chaim / POTOK, CHAIM)
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The Book of LightsISBN 0014006480 (0-01-400648-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The ChosenISBN 0140030948 (0-14-003094-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:i took off my glasses and rubbed the tops of my ears. I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality...as if all the previous years of my life had led me somehow to this one ball game, and all the future years of my life would depend upon its outcome... [via]
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Davita's HarpISBN 0394542908 (0-394-54290-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Davita's Harp'Book summary:For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.
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The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak FamilyISBN 0140265759 (0-14-026575-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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The Gift of Asher LevISBN 0140153691 (0-14-015369-1)
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I Am the ClayISBN 0140178279 (0-14-017827-9)
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In the BeginningISBN 0140043497 (0-14-004349-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Beginning'Book summary:The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically reassessing what it means for him to be a Jew. The author also wrote "The Chosen". [via]
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The Jews in AmericaISBN 0002153238 (0-00-215323-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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My First 79 YearsISBN 0306810069 (0-306-81006-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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My Name Is Asher LevISBN 0140036423 (0-14-003642-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Asher Lev'Book summary:"Memorable...A book profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Here is the original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious boy with an overwhelming need to draw, to paint, to render the world he knows and the pain he feels, on canvas for everyone to see. A loner, Asher has an extroardinary God-given gift that possesses a spirit all its own. It is this force that must learn to master without shaming his people or relinquishing any part of his deeply felt Judaism. It will not be easy for him, but he knows, too, that even if it is impossible, it must be done....
"A novel of finely articulated tragic power...Little short of a work of genius."
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Old Men at MidnightISBN 0345439988 (0-345-43998-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Men at Midnight'Book summary: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 menstories 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 shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town.
As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in The War Doctor, her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors plot.
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 wifes illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal.
Poignant and profound, Chaim Potoks newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkableand remarkably lovedbody of work.
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The PromiseISBN 0140033300 (0-14-003330-0)
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Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, and the Lost Library of QumranISBN 0300140223 (0-300-14022-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the JewsISBN 0091366607 (0-09-136660-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews'Book summary: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. [via]
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Zebra and Other StoriesISBN 0375806865 (0-375-80686-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zebra and Other Stories'Book summary:Each of the six stories in Chaim Potok's lovely collection is titled simply with the name of the main character, reflecting the essence of these quiet selections--intense, exquisitely drawn portraits of the ordinary lives of young people. In "Zebra" a boy, with the help of a mysterious, unconventional art teacher, begins to regain the use of his crushed hand--and in the process heals a bit of his injured spirit. Secrets abound in "B.B.," where a young girl whose baby brother has died must cope with discovering the hidden realities about her family that are "too much of a secret for me to be carrying alone." "Nava" describes how a young woman handles a bully, calling upon the strength inspired by the words of a Native American family friend to confront a violent drug dealer.
The issues faced by these young adults--trust, divorce, grief, hope, peer and family dynamics--are common coming-of-age milestones. But what makes Potok's powerful work shine is that he clearly holds respect for the intelligence and intuition of young people, allowing them to decipher their own truths--refraining from preaching or hammering a point home. Potok, author of The Chosen, published several of these stories previously in adult publications. Nevertheless, these voices never sound dubiously mature for their teen years; they speak the straightforward, often strikingly insightful language of youth. As one young character notes, "I think losing your soul is when you can't tell a story about something that has happened to you." Indeed. Judging by the quality and craftsmanship of these tales, it's obvious that Potok is brimming with soul. (Ages 12 and older). --Brangien Davis [via]
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