Chaim Potok
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Chaim Potok

Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

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Chaim Potok

Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

About this book

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created unforgettable characters forging American identities for themselves while retaining their Jewish nature. The essays illuminate the central struggle in Potok's novels, which results from a profound desire to reconcile the appeal of modernity with the pull of traditional Judaism. The volume includes a memoir by Adena Potok and ends with Chaim Potok's "My Life as a Writer," a speech he gave at Penn State in 1982.

Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Aarons, Nathan P. Devir, Jane Eisner, Susanne Klingenstein, S. Lillian Kremer, Jessica Lang, Sanford E. Marovitz, Kathryn McClymond, Hugh Nissenson, Adena Potok, and Jonathan Rosen.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780271059815
eBook ISBN
9780271062686
Topic
Arte
Subtopic
Biografías de artistas

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction (Daniel Walden)
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. PART 1: The Novels
  8. Chapter 1: The Chosen: Defining American Judaism (Kathryn McClymond)
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: The Three-Pronged Dialectic: Understanding Conflict in Potok’s Early Fiction (Jessica Lang)
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: Guardians of the Torah: Ambiguity and Antagonism in The Promise (Victoria Aarons)
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: Daedalus Redeemed: Asher Lev’s Journey from Rebellion to Rapprochement (S. Lillian Kremer)
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: Davita’s harp: The Silence of Violence and the Limits of the Imagination (Susanne Klingenstein)
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: The Book of Lights: A Book of Choices (Sanford E. Marovitz)
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Chapter 7: History and Responsibility: An Assessment of Potok’s “Non-Jewish” I Am the Clay (Nathan P. Devir)
  21. Notes to Chapter 7
  22. PART 2: Looking Back: Memories of Potok
  23. Chapter 8: Choosing the Chosen: A Reappraisal of The Chosen (Hugh Nissenson)
  24. Chapter 9: A Zwischenmensch (“Between Person”) in the Cultures (Daniel Walden)
  25. Chapter 10: Chaim Potok and the Question of jewish Writing (Jonathan Rosen)
  26. Chapter 11: Chaim Potok: A Literary Biography (Adena Potok)
  27. Chapter 12: Chaim Potok Is No Longer with Us, but His Lessons Remain (Jane Eisner)
  28. Chapter 13: Adena Potok on I Am the Clay (Nathan P. Devir)
  29. Notes to Chapter 13
  30. Chapter 14: Chaim Potok: My Life as a Writer (Chaim Potok)
  31. List of Contributors
  32. Index
  33. COVER Back