Chaim Potok : confronting modernity through the lens of tradition / edited by Daniel Walden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walden, Daniel, 1922-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Potok, Chaim--Criticism and interpretation.

Potok, Chaim.

Judaism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Judaism and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

Jewish fiction--History and criticism.

Jewish fiction.

Jews in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xix, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The chosen : defining American Judaism / Kathryn McClymond

The three-pronged dialectic : understanding conflict in Potok's early fiction / Jessica Lang

Guardians of the Torah : ambiguity and antagonism in The promise / Victoria Aarons

Daedalus redeemed : Asher Lev's journey from rebellion to rapprochement / S. Lillian Kremer

Davita's harp : the silence of violence and the limits of the imagination / Susanne Klingenstein

The book of lights : a book of choices / Sanford E. Marovitz

History and responsibility : an assessment of Potok's "non-Jewish" I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir

Choosing the chosen : a reappraisal of The chosen / Hugh Nissenson

Chaim Potok : a Zwischenmensch ("between person") in the cultures / Daniel Walden

Chaim Potok and the question of Jewish writing / Jonathan Rosen

Chaim Potok : a literary biography / Adena Potok

Chaim Potok is no longer with us, but his lessons remain / Jane Eisner

Adena Potok on I am the clay / Nathan P. Devir

Chaim Potok : my life as a writer / Chaim Potok.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271059815

0271059818

OCLC:

826997395