Chaim Potok wrote literary fiction about Jewish identity, religious tradition, education and the conflicts created when intellectual or artistic ambitions challenge community expectations. The Chosen follows Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn whose friendship develops across different religious backgrounds and different relationships with their fathers. My Name Is Asher Lev centres on a Hasidic boy whose talent for painting increasingly conflicts with his community's expectations, while The Promise continues characters from The Chosen into adulthood. Potok's prose is clear, reflective and character-led, with theology, study and family obligation central. His work fits Jewish American literature, coming-of-age fiction and novels about faith, education and artistic vocation. Read more Less
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