Chaim Potok : : Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition /

Chaim Potok : : Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition / / ed. by Daniel Walden.

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth centur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Aarons, Victoria,
Devir, Nathan P.,
Eisner, Jane,
Klingenstein, Susanne,
Kremer, S. Lillian,
Lang, Jessica,
Marovitz, Sanford E.,
McClymond, Kathryn,
Nissenson, Hugh,
Potok, Adena,
Potok, Chaim,
Rosen, Jonathan,
Walden, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Walden, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 2 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. The novels
  • 1. The Chosen
  • 2. The Three-Pronged Dialectic
  • 3. Guardians of the Torah
  • 4. Daedalus Redeemed
  • 5 Davita's Harp
  • 6 The Book of Lights
  • 7 History and Responsibility
  • PART 2. LOOKING BACK: MEMORIES OF POTOK
  • 8 Choosing the Chosen
  • 9 Chaim Potok
  • 10 Chaim Potok and the Question of Jewish Writing
  • 11 Chaim Potok
  • 12 Chaim Potok Is No Longer With Us, but His Lessons Remain
  • 13 Adena Potok on I Am the Clay
  • 14 Chaim Potok
  • Contributors
  • Index

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