7/7/2023 0 Comments The Promise by Chaim Potok![]() ![]() Chaim Potok, along with his younger brother and two younger sisters, was raised in the Orthodox Jewish religion. Potok sold stationery following the Depression, he became a jeweler. His father had emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1921. Originally named Herman Harold, Potok was born in New York City on February 17, 1929, to Polish-Jewish immigrants Benjamin Max Potok and Mollie Friedman Potok. To a great degree, he is describing not only the lives of the characters in the novel but his own life - ac-cording to Potok, the novel is very much an autobiography of his young-adult life. In The Chosen, Chaim Potok (pronounced Hi em Poe talk) describes the condition of American Jews living in two cultures, one secular and one religious. ![]()
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