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Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy--and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their ruthless ...Show more
In the Beginning by Chaim Potok
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everythi ...Show more
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Category: Classics
"Memorable...A book profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art."THE WALL STREET JOURNALHere is the original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious boy with an overwhelming need to draw, to paint, to render the world he knows and the pain he feels, on canvas for everyone to see ...Show more
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love an ...Show more
Old Men at Midnight by Chaim Potok
Category: Fiction
From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men--stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their liv ...Show more
Promise by POTOK Chaim
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERYoung 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 ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Category: Classics
It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, b ...Show more
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Category: Children's Fiction
In 1940s Brooklyn, two boys who have grown up within a few blocks of each other, but in entirely different worlds, meet for the first time in a bizarre encounter -- a baseball game between two Jewish parochial schools that turns into a holy war. With dramatic force and simplicity that seizes the heart, ...Show more
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