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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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-7156 | Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
Details
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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