Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools (and among Sefaradim today) the sages...

Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. ... Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmud (The Oral Law) and later codified in the Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law). It is governed by these works and the Rabbinical commentary... The Talmud (תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions of Jewish law, ethics, customs, legends, and stories, which Jewish tradition considers authoritative. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ...

In 1950, he obtained an B.A., summa cum laude, in English Literature from Yeshiva University. After receiving an M.A. in Hebrew literature, and his later rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Potok joined the U.S. Army as a chaplain. He served in South Korea from 1955 to 1957. He has described his time in South Korea as being a transformative experience; brought up to believe that the Jewish people were central to history and God's plans, he experienced a continent where there were no Jews and no anti-semitism, yet whose religious believers prayed with the same fervour that he saw in the orthodox synagogues at home. The experience made him question many of the things he had believed in. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City whose first component was founded in 1886. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected... The Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, known in the Jewish community simply as JTS, is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...

On June 8, 1958, he married Adena Sara Mosevitzsky, a psychiatric social worker, whom he met in 1952 at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. They had three children: Rena, Naama, and Akiva. June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in northeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 30 miles north of Allentown. ...

From 1964 to 1975, Potok edited Conservative Judaism and also served as editor, from 1965-1974, of the Jewish Publication Society. In 1965, Potok was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself [2]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

Potok is most famous for his 1967 novel The Chosen, which was also made into a film released in 1981, which won top award at the World Film Festival, Montreal, and later became a musical on Broadway for a short time. It was a semi-autobiographical story about two boys. Reuven Malter, a Modern Orthodox Jew, becomes friends with Danny Saunders, an exceptionally brilliant young son of a Hasidic rabbi. The father, Reb Saunders, expects his son to succeed him as a rabbi and the leader of their Hassidic sect, yet Danny wants to study psychology, a secular field of study. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... The Chosen is a book by Chaim Potok published in 1967. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Modern Orthodox Judaism is a philosophy that attempts to adapt Orthodox Judaism and interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish, modern world. ... Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: Chasidut חסידות) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. ... Psychology (Gk: psyche, soul or mind + logos, speech) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ...

The protagonists of most of his novels are Orthodox American-born Jews, although he has experimented with Korean protagonists in his novel I Am The Clay and with other Gentile characters in some of his short stories. Dominant themes are the conflict between father and son and the search for a mentor, and the struggle to bridge the gap between Orthodox Judaism and modernity. His books are most frequently coming of age novels, in which the characters try to find a place for themselves that incorporates both religion and the intellectual fruits of secular culture.

In addition to his work in the fields of theology, history, and literature, Rabbi Potok was an accomplished painter. His novel My Name is Asher Lev chronicles the conflicts experienced by a young artist who had been raised in Orthodox Judaism. Dr. Potok cited James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ernest Hemingway, and S.Y. Agnon as his chief literary influences. His prose style is reminiscent of Hemmingway, and he grapples with philosophical ideas as do Mann and Dostoevsky. Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. ... Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ...

Dr. Potok died of brain cancer in Merion, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 2002. A brain tumor is any mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either found in the brain (neurons, glial cells, epithelial cells, myelin producing cells, etc. ... Merion is a community in Pennsylvania state of the United States. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

Bibliography

• Jewish Ethics, 1964-69, 14 volumes
• The Chosen, 1967
• The Promise, 1969
• My Name is Asher Lev, 1972
• In the Beginning, 1975
• The Jew Confronts Himself in American Literature, 1975
• Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews, 1978
• The Book of Lights, 1981
• Davita's Harp, 1985
• Theo Tobiasse, 1986
• The Gift of Asher Lev, 1990
• I Am the Clay, 1992
• The Tree of Here, 1993
• The Sky of Now, 1994
• The Gates of November, 1996
• Zebra and Other Stories, 1998
• Old Men at Midnight, 2001

The Chosen is a book by Chaim Potok published in 1967. ... The Promise is the name of several works. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

See also

• List of notable brain tumor patients

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