Chaim Potok [electronic resource] : confronting modernity through the lens of tradition / edited by Daniel Walden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The chosen : defining American Judaism / Kathryn McClymond -- The three-pronged dialectic : understanding conflict in Potok's early fiction / Jessica Lang -- Guardians of the Torah : ambiguity and antagonism in The promise / Victoria Aarons -- Daedalus redeemed : Asher Lev's journey from rebellion to rapprochement / S. Lillian Kremer -- Davita's harp : the silence of violence and the limits of the imagination / Susanne Klingenstein -- The book of lights : a book of choices / Sanford E. Marovitz -- History and responsibility : an assessment of Potok's "non-Jewish" I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir -- Choosing the chosen : a reappraisal of The chosen / Hugh Nissenson -- Chaim Potok : a Zwischenmensch ("between person") in the cultures / Daniel Walden -- Chaim Potok and the question of Jewish writing / Jonathan Rosen -- Chaim Potok : a literary biography / Adena Potok -- Chaim Potok is no longer with us, but his lessons remain / Jane Eisner -- Adena Potok on I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir -- Chaim Potok : my life as a writer / Chaim Potok.

"A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher.

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