Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited". Wikipedia
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Rabbi and author of The Book of Lights, I Am The Clay and many others, Chaim Potok discusses his book, The Chosen , and the movie made from the book. wiredforbooks.org/chaimpotok/
Chaim Potok was the first American Jewish novelist who opened up the field from the inside. As a Conservative rabbi, and a Philosophy PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, he was uniquely able to present the Jewish experience, from the inside as it ru www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/chaim-potok-639071....
