quartonews.it » Fiction and Literature » The Chosen: 25th Anniversary Edition

Download The Chosen: 25th Anniversary Edition djvu

by Chaim Potok

Author:	Chaim Potok
Subcategory:	Classics
Language:	English
Publisher:	Knopf; Anniversary edition (November 24, 1992)
Pages:	295 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.2
Other formats:	rtf azw txt doc

Download DJVU Download EPUB

More...

Free 5-8 business-day shipping within the .

Free 5-8 business-day shipping within the . Prices may vary for AK and H. Learn more about free shipping.

Home Chaim Potok The Chosen. The Chosen is a compelling, absorbing book. It offers deep, sympathetic insight into the variety and profundity of Jewish tradition and heritage. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Anyone who finds The Chosen is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal. It will stay on our bookshelves and be read again. The Wall Street Journal. The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade.

This item:The Chosen: A Novel by Chaim Potok Mass Market Paperback . I am part Jewish and brought up in the very neighborhood Chaim Potok talks about

This is a masterpiece which deserves the praise and honors it has received since 1967. Let me now recognize that there are some who do not like the book. I am part Jewish and brought up in the very neighborhood Chaim Potok talks about. I recognized the places, especially the library that can only be the Brooklyn Public at Grand Army Plaza.

The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise, was published in 1969. In 1944 Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Reuven Malter prepares to play a baseball game: his own modern Orthodox school against a team from an ultra-orthodox Hasidic yeshiva.

The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade. It offers deep, sympathetic insight into the variety and profundity of Jewish tradition and heritage

The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade. The author asks and provides unique and originals answers to the nature of parental love, infuses his novel with a quiet and compelling wisdom, and brings alive a period and neighborhood with rare style. Perceptive, touching, exquisite, and unusual. This is a most profound novel: Chaim Potok is a gifted writer. The Boston Sunday Herald.

This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.

ISBN 10: 0679402225, ISBN 13: 9780679402220. This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students. Welcome to Our AbeBooks Store for books.

товар 4 Potok, Chaim-The Chosen BOOK NEW -Potok, Chaim-The .

товар 4 Potok, Chaim-The Chosen BOOK NEW -Potok, Chaim-The Chosen BOOK NEW. 503,00 RUB. + 191,25 RUB за доставку. I bought this book as a supplement for a class set of The Chosen that I teach to my 8th graders. This novel not only offers a warm tale of friendship, but it teaches the reader a great deal about Judaism, in addition to providing historical context about WWII, the Holocaust, and the Zionists' goal of creating Israel. Новые 981,32 RUB. Б/у

The Chosen (Hardcover). Published July 25th 2000 by Steck-Vaughn. Hardcover, 482 pages. The Chosen (Mass Market Paperback). Published April 12th 1987 by Ballantine Books (Mm).

The Chosen (Hardcover). Mass Market Paperback, 271 pages.

Chaim Potok (1929-2002) One of your many books that we have enjoyed and inspired us over the . Herman Harold Potok, better known by his pen name Chaim Potok, was born in the Bronx, New York on this day in 1929

Chaim Potok (1929-2002). One of your many books that we have enjoyed and inspired us over the years. Thank you for these gifts. Herman Harold Potok, better known by his pen name Chaim Potok, was born in the Bronx, New York on this day in 1929 him wanting to get out in a special way. ―from MY NAME IS ASHER LEV (1972). Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe.

"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."THE WALL STREET JOURNALIt is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....From the Paperback edition.

Comments:

Ghordana

Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch

It might seem tiresome to add a review to the many already published on Amazon, which well present the contents of this book as well as its merits and problems. But, having reread the book after nearly 40 years, I was struck by one point which did not catch my attention earlier.

On pp. 284-5 Potok states "...it is important to know of pain...It destroys our self-pride, our arrogance, our indifference toward others...of all people a tsaddik especially must know of pain. A tsaddik must know how to suffer for his people...He must take their pain from them and carry it on his own shoulders. He must carry it always. He must grow old before his years. He must cry, in his heart he must always cry. Even when he dances and sings, he must cry for the sufferings of his people."

If we substitute the term "global leaders, spiritual as well as political" (as discussed in my recent book) for the Jewish term "tsaddik" then an important but usually ignored truth confronts us -- adding to the interest of the book as a whole.

Professor Yehezkel Dror
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Arar

I read the paperback several decades ago and I saw the movie with Robby Benson and Rod Steiger. And I saw an interview where I witnessed the great respect some have for Rabbi Potok. The experience moved me greatly.
This edition adds reviews and introductions to the book that express my feelings more completely than this short piece. This is a masterpiece which deserves the praise and honors it has received since 1967. I would suggest the book for any intelligent person of any faith.

Let me now recognize that there are some who do not like the book. That is their loss.

The book is a complex piece about choosing your path in life. The background of two jewish boys who are true friends who find each other then grow apart and reconcile is a timeless story for everybody. It is so beautifully expressed. Then add the relationship with fathers and expectations. I cannot praise it highly enough. Read the book. Then see Robby Benson's Danny Saunders. You will be glad you did.

ARE

I can't believe I didn't read this book years ago. When I read the beginning of the book about what seemed to be a simple baseball game, I thought that this would not be a book I could relate to. I was so wrong. That is part of the genius of Mr. Potok's writing. He starts out simply, with a good story that keeps you reading and then-Voila, you are taken on a journey you don't want to end.
The book taught me so much about Judaism, spirituality and love. I cried at the end. I am part Jewish and brought up in the very neighborhood Chaim Potok talks about. I recognized the places, especially the library that can only be the Brooklyn Public at Grand Army Plaza. I too walked under those arches decades after and yet with the author and it remains a treasured memory. Even the hospital he and his father stayed in,could be the one where I gave birth to my second son, Maimonides Hospital.
Yet this book is about more than memories or religion. It explains life in a simple and profound way. It talked about a people who suffered and held on to tradition in order to survive. But like eating Levy's bread or a bagel, you don't have to be Jewish to benefit from the beauty. It is a universal story. It's about an enduring friendship, and most of all , the love of two fathers and their sons. I wish I could have met the author because to write such a book, he had to have been a wonderful teacher, writer and human being. I am so grateful I found this diamond and now want to read everything he wrote. I did this with DH Laurence when I saw an obscure play the author wrote. I am transported and transformed by reading this book. And that's is what the best books can do. "The Chosen" will be one of the few books I keep on my bookshelf for life. Aloha

Isha

This is the story of two boys in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and their fathers, during the 1940s. Danny's father is a Hasidic rabbi, and Reuven and his father are orthodox Jews, but not Hasidic. The story begins with a (softball/baseball) game--the author seems to confuse the two games--in which a ball hit by Danny strikes Reuven, the pitcher, breaking his glasses and putting him in the hospital. Danny comes to the hospital to apologize to Reuven, but Reuven angrily rejects Danny's apology. Reuven's father counsels him to apologize for his rude rejection of Danny, which he does, and they become best friends.

I suspect that many of the one-star reviews were written by folks who read no farther than this; I must admit I came close to quitting at this point and giving it one star, but fortunately I persisted, and soon thereafter the boredom ceased, and I could hardly put the book down after that.

Several reviewers have commented on Rabbi Saunders' silent treatment of Danny, which may, in this case, have accomplished its purpose of developing compassion. However, most children develop compassion as they grow up, without the silent treatment, which was cruel, and was uncomfortably close to the parenting style that, according to what I have read*, has been found to be common to most serial killers such as Ted Bundy. The ending could easily have been tragic, and it is not exactly happy, but life will go on, and will probably be bearable. Reuven will probably get married eventually, and maybe Danny will, too.

There are some surprises which I won't spoil. This is not a book for children; you need the life experience of growing up to adulthood to fully understand and appreciate it. I doubt that I was ready for it before age 35. But at 77, I am very glad that I read it.

[email protected]
* SeeThe Stranger Beside Me, by Ann Rule.

Rocky Basilisk

This book is a classic. I was assigned to read this in high school and thought, initially before opening it that it was another lame book fore class. I finished it in two days. The characters are rich in development and their situations are very real. I am glad it is finally available on Kindle. The follow up, The Promise is also a must read.

eBooks related to The Chosen: 25th Anniversary Edition:

Download Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Markets in the 1990s djvu

Download The Poker Face of Wall Street djvu

Download The New Erotic Photography (Taschen 25th Anniversary) (German, English and French Edition) djvu

Download Brother, can you spare a dime?: America from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbor : an illustrated documentary djvu

Download Common Sons: Common Threads in the Life djvu

Download The World in a Frame: What We See in Films, 25th Anniversary Edition djvu

Download The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power djvu

Download Elvenborn: Book 3 of the Halfblood Chronicles djvu