Chaim Potok (1929–2002)
Autor/a de The Chosen
Sobre l'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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Chaim Potok
The Chosen (Inscribed/Signed by Author) 3 exemplars
The Chosen / In The Beginning 1 exemplars
The Novelist and the Bible 1 exemplars
Volám sa Ašer Lev 1 exemplars
Dar Ashera Leva 1 exemplars
Meu Nome é Asher Lev 1 exemplars
Playbill: Out of the depths 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Potok, Chaim
- Nom oficial
- Potok, Herman Harold
- Altres noms
- POTOK, Herman Harold
POTOK, Chaim - Lloc d'enterrament
- Shalom Memorial Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Merion, Pennsylvania, USA
- Causa de la mort
- brain cancer
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Merion, Pennsylvania, USA - Educació
- 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) - Professions
- novelist
rabbi - Organitzacions
- Conservative Judaism (editor)
Jewish Publication Society (editor)
United States Army (Korea)
Membres
Converses
April 2023: Chaim Potok a Monthly Author Reads (maig 2023)
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Llistes
Favourite Books (2)
Sonlight Books (1)
First Novels (1)
Summer Reading (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Jewish Books (9)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 37
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 21,246
- Popularitat
- #1,021
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 298
- ISBN
- 384
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 110