The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok

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also served his people and religion through all of his writings which
are all in some way related to or involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant
award, in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:

"So why did Potok's book make such a heavy impression on me?... he takes a
meager story, told in plain words, about two Jewish boys who are radically
unlike me and turns it into something so universal I couldn't help getting
pulled in by it. " -Lea Davis

The next novel he wrote was the sequel to The Chosen, The Promise,
in 1969, which also won him an award, The Athenaeum Prize. After that, he
wrote My Name is Asher Lev in 1972. His next novel In the Beginning was
written in 1975. Then he wrote The Book of Lights in 1981. In 1985 he wrote
Davita's Harp. In 1990 he wrote The Gift of Asher Lev which won him The
National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Which ...

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