Chaim Potok (1929–2002)
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Sobre El Autor
Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated summa cum laude (with highest honors) from Yeshiva University in 1950, and received an advanced degree from Jewish Theological Seminary in 1954, when he also became an ordained Conservative rabbi. After two years of military service as a mostrar más chaplain in Korea, Potok married Adena Sarah Mosevitsky in 1958. The couple had three children. Eventually Potok returned to school and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. Potok has held a variety of positions within the Jewish community, including directing a camp in Los Angeles, teaching at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles at a Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and working as an editor on various religious publications, Potok's first novel, The Chosen, was published in 1967, and he quickly won acclaim for this best-selling book about tensions within the Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities. This and later books have been both critically and popularly successful. Many of them explore the meaning of Judaism in the modern era, focusing on the conflict between traditional teachings and the pressures of modern life. The Chosen was nominated for a National Book Award in 1967 and made into a successful film in 1982. Its sequel, The Promise (1969) was the winner of an Athenaeum Award. Potok is also the author of a nonfiction volume, Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews (1978), as well as several short stories and articles that have been published in both religious and secular magazines. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Chaim Potok
The Chosen / In The Beginning 1 copia
The Novelist and the Bible 1 copia
Volám sa Ašer Lev 1 copia
Dar Ashera Leva 1 copia
Meu Nome é Asher Lev 1 copia
The Jews In America. 1 copia
Playbill: Out of the depths 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Potok, Chaim
- Nombre legal
- Potok, Herman Harold
- Otros nombres
- POTOK, Herman Harold
POTOK, Chaim - Lugar de sepultura
- Shalom Memorial Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Merion, Pennsylvania, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- brain cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Merion, Pennsylvania, USA - Educación
- Yeshiva University (BA, English Literature, 1950)
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (MA, Hebrew literature, 1954)
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rabbinic ordination, 1954)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD, 1965) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
rabbi - Organizaciones
- Conservative Judaism (editor)
Jewish Publication Society (editor)
United States Army (Korea)
Miembros
Debates
April 2023: Chaim Potok en Monthly Author Reads (mayo 2023)
Reseñas
The Promise por Chaim Potok
Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer — Reuven battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought.… (más)
Listas
Jewish Books (9)
Summer Reading (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Sonlight Books (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
Books About Boys (2)
Favourite Books (2)
Carole's List (2)
AP Lit (2)
1970s (1)
First Novels (1)
1990s (1)
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- Obras
- 39
- También por
- 11
- Miembros
- 21,458
- Popularidad
- #1,008
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 298
- ISBNs
- 384
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 109
