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'''Chaim Potok''' was an [[author]], most widely known for writing the classic novel ''[[The Chosen]]'', a book about [[Jewish]] issues. 

==Life and works==
Potok was born on February 17, 1929 in the Bronx, [[New York]] to a family of [[Polish]] [[immigrant]]s.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/chaim-potok-37137</ref>  As a teenager, he decided he wanted to write, reading the great works of [[Charles Dickens]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], and [[William Faulkner]], and attended Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he received several degrees including English Literature and Hebrew Literature and became an official Conservative rabbi.<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/chaim-potok</ref>  After serving in the [[Korean War]], he married, and later became a [[rabbi]].<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/chaim-potok-3708.php</ref>  In 1967, he wrote his first and most famous novel, ''The Chosen'', an allegory about the Hasidic community, and later its sequel, ''The Promise'' (1969).<ref>"Potok, Chaim."
''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  In 2002, at the age of 73, Potok died of [[brain cancer]].

==Bibliography==
After ''The Promise'', he wrote many more novels and children's books, including:<ref>http://potok.lasierra.edu/Potok.biographical.html</ref>

*''My Name is Asher Lev'' (1972) 
*''In the Beginning'' (1975) 
*''The Book of Lights'' (1981) 
*''Davita's Harp'' (1985)
*''The Gift of Asher Lev'' (1990)
*''I Am the Clay'' (1992)
*''Old Men at Midnight'' (2001)
 
*''The Tree of Here'' (1993) (illustrated by Tony Auth) 
*''The Sky of Now'' (1995) (illustrated by Tony Auth) 
*''Zebra and Other Stories'' (1998)

*''Wanderings'' (1978)
*''Ethical Living for a Modern World: Jewish Insights''
*''The Gates of November'' (1996) 
*''My First Seventy-Nine Years: Memoirs of Isaac Stern'' (1999)

==See also==
*[[Saul Bellow]]

==References==
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