Sg the Chosen W/Conn

Chaim Potok

Holt/McDougal

A touching story of an unlikely friendship between two young Jewish boys, one Orthodox and one Hasidic, who meet as fierce opponents on a baseball field. The story takes place in the 1940s in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

The Chosen, with Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one’s own way in the world.Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He  also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps  it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.One day, worried about a disturbed,  unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching.  Reuven also  introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders—now a psychologist with a growing  reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael,  Reuven and Danny each  learns what it is to take on life—whether sacred truths or a troubled child—according  to his own lights, not just established authority.

The Promise

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

In The Beginning

Fawcett Books

In his confusion about his life and times, Gershon Loran reveals the uncertainty, fear, and rage of the generation of Jewish men and women who came of age following World War II

The Book of Lights

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Davita's Harp

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.

Chosen

Literary

The novelist records the anguish and triumps of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else

My Name Is Asher Lev

KNOPF

The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Related readings include: Somewhere a Master by Elie Wiesel; In My Father's Court by Issac B. Singer; I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson; The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy; The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong; and New African by Andrea Lee.

The Chosen: And Related Readings (Literature Connections)

MCDOUGAL LITTEL

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes   in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe.  Asher Lev is an artist who   is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him   to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s   passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject   only to the imagination. Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in   postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe.   But in time, his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he   adores.  As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait   of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.

Heinemann: london

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Books by Chaim Potok

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Sg the Chosen W/Conn

The Chosen, with Related Readings (Glencoe Literature Library)

The Promise

In The Beginning

The Book of Lights

Davita's Harp

Chosen

My Name Is Asher Lev

The Chosen: And Related Readings (Literature Connections)

My Name Is Asher Lev