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...earnest radicalism of the 1930s has become familiar terrain for fiction. Chaim Potok, a chronicler of the factions within American Jewish culture (The Chosen, My Name Is Asher Lev), assiduously attempts to freshen the milieu: his title character and narrator is a thoughtful, believable preadolescent girl; her father is a celebrated radical journalist from an old-line, plutocratic Wasp family, her mother a Jewish emigre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Davita's Harp | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...issued Psalms and a dozen other biblical books, the new Jewish Bible is finally complete. This last section was translated by three U.S.-trained experts: Moshe Greenberg and Jonas Greenfield of He brew University in Israel and Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University. They were assisted by Novelist-Rabbi Chaim Potok (The Chosen), who served as coordinator and literary consultant. The Holy Scriptures will certainly stand as a landmark of Jewish religious scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Bible No Longer So Greek | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

FICTION: The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok ∙ Easy Travel to Other Planets, Ted Mooney ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike Reinhart's Women, Thomas Berger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Nov. 23, 1981 | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

FICTION: The Book of Lights, Chaim Potok ∙ Easy Travel to Other Planets, Ted Mooney ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike Reinhart's Women, Thomas Berger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Book of Lights, Chaim Potok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Oct. 26, 1981 | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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