The Chosen

Two teenage Jewish boys meet as rivals in a baseball game and begin an unlikely friendship, navigating the opposite political and religious views of their fathers.https://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/mst-programs/1011/thumbnail.jp

Cultural Confrontation: Wrestling with Rebellious Stories (Original Title Unavailable)

1997/10/29. How stories break us out of our subcultures and cause us to encounter truth outside of one\u27s tradition. Explores origins of his writing career and his own stories. Celebrated Jewish novelist

My Name is Asher Lev

Sunday, March 23, 2014, 2:00-3:30pm My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok Special Guest: Akiva PotokFacilitated by Dr. Audrey Thacker, Department of English, CSUN Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jewishbookgroup/1022/thumbnail.jp

The chosen

271 p. ; 18 cm

The Promise

21 cm; 358 ha