Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok (Feb 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and won the Edward Lewis Wallant Awa
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Chaim Potok (Feb 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award . Potok wrote a sequel to The Chosen in 1969 entitled The Promise, which details the issues of the value and identity between Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. This book won the Athenaeum Literary Award the same year of its publication. In 1972, he published My Name is Asher Lev. In 1975, he published In the Beginning. From 1974 until his death, Potok served as a special projects editor for the Jewish Publication Society. During this time, Potok began translating the Hebrew Bible into English.
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