Chaim Potok was a novelist who paved the way for a younger generation of religious American Jewish writers — and a Jewish scholar who worked tirelessly to bring Jews and Judaism closer together. Potok ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writer-director Aaron Posner wrote a sleek and elegant stage adaptation of the 1967 novel "The Chosen" with the book's author, Chaim Potok, and In Tandem Theatre is giving the play a pitch-perfect ...

Chaim Potok, 73, the best-selling author and rabbi who wrote of conflict and tension between fathers and sons, the old and the new, tradition and change, and the spiritual and the secular in such ...

Well, the superb Fountain Theatre and its resident genius-in-chief, Stephen Sachs, have done it again. They've mounted a just-about-perfect production: Chaim Potok's classic novel "My Name is Asher ...