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Chaim Potok : confronting modernity through the lens of tradition

Title
Chaim Potok : confronting modernity through the lens of tradition / edited by Daniel Walden.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors
Walden, Daniel, 1922-
Description
xix, 184 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Potok, Chaim > Criticism and interpretation
  • Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Jewish fiction > History and criticism
  • Jews in literature
  • Modernism (Literature)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The chosen : defining American Judaism / Kathryn McClymond -- The three-pronged dialectic : understanding conflict in Potok's early fiction / Jessica Lang -- Guardians of the Torah : ambiguity and antagonism in The promise / Victoria Aarons -- Daedalus redeemed : Asher Lev's journey from rebellion to rapprochement / S. Lillian Kremer -- Davita's harp : the silence of violence and the limits of the imagination / Susanne Klingenstein -- The book of lights : a book of choices / Sanford E. Marovitz -- History and responsibility : an assessment of Potok's "non-Jewish" I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir -- Choosing the chosen : a reappraisal of The chosen / Hugh Nissenson -- Chaim Potok : a Zwischenmensch ("between person") in the cultures / Daniel Walden -- Chaim Potok and the question of Jewish writing / Jonathan Rosen -- Chaim Potok : a literary biography / Adena Potok -- Chaim Potok is no longer with us, but his lessons remain / Jane Eisner -- Adena Potok on I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir -- Chaim Potok : my life as a writer / Chaim Potok.
Call Number
JFE 13-7156
ISBN
  • 9780271059815 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271059818 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013002342
OCLC
826997395
Title
Chaim Potok : confronting modernity through the lens of tradition / edited by Daniel Walden.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Walden, Daniel, 1922-
Research Call Number
JFE 13-7156
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