TY - BOOK AU - Walden,Daniel ED - Project Muse. TI - Chaim Potok: confronting modernity through the lens of tradition SN - 9780271061047 AV - PS3566.O69 Z63 2013 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2013/// CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Potok, Chaim KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Jews in literature KW - Jewish fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Judaism and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271061047/ ER -