(JTA) — Robert Gottlieb, the legendary literary editor who shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” and Chaim ...

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Essayist and author Hugh Nissenson reads excerpts of The Chosen at a symposium honoring the memory of Chaim Potok, known for his contemporary literature on Jewish life in America. [Avi Berkowitz/The ...

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Chaim Potok was to the tenets and vicissitudes of Judaism as Eli Wiesel was to the Holocaust. Each man pursued his personal obsession with unflagging intensity, to a total of 57 books by Elie Wiesel ...

"The Chosen," an intellectually and spiritually exciting story about two Jewish teens in Brooklyn, is firmly set in the 1940s, with World War II, the Holocaust, the Zionist movement and the creation ...

Chaim Potok was an incredibly gifted writer. "My Name Is Asher Lev," an intricate story of conflicts in morality and social acceptance versus personal desires, is one worth telling to an audience. But ...

Chaim Potok, the celebrated novelist known for depicting the Chasidic world, died of brain cancer Tuesday at 73. Potok’s best-known works, including “The Chosen” and “My Name Is Asher Lev,” describe ...