Word: potok
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...CHOSEN by Chaim Potok. 284 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...this first novel, Chaim Potok, 38, editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America and graduate cum laude of a New York Jewish boyhood, brews up a hearty bowl of the same old chicken soup whose recipe was laid down a generation ago by Henry Roth in Call It Sleep and Daniel Fuchs in his Summer in Williamsburg trilogy. Potok, however, adds a slightly different flavor: the conflict of his youthful protagonists is resolved against the waning days of World War II on the home front-a back ground that, in the hands of novelists of all creeds, is becoming...