Author Chaim Potok, whose Orthodox Jewish upbringing inspired "The Chosen" and other novels that became best-sellers among readers of many faiths, died Tuesday. He was 73. Potok, who was diagnosed ...

Chaim Potok, an ordained rabbi and best-selling novelist whose fiction often probed the dueling personal and spiritual demands of Jewish faith versus those of secular American society, died Tuesday at ...

Rabbi-turned-author Chaim Potok, whose Orthodox Jewish upbringing inspired his book — and later a movie and play — “The Chosen” as well as almost 20 other books exploring the clash between religious ...

All of his life, Chaim Potok’s novels explored the devastating effects of enforced silence. That was why he didn’t stop – couldn’t stop – writing until yesterday, when he died from brain cancer at age ...

The University community suffered a great loss of intellect and scholarship this Tuesday with the death of Honors Program professor Chaim Potok. The best-selling author passed away at his home in the ...

American writer Chaim Potok, whose books popularised the oft-reclusive world of Jewish orthodoxy, has died at the age of 73. Mr Potok was best known for his 1969 debut novel The Chosen, about the ...

Chaim Potok was a novelist who paved the way for a younger generation of religious American Jewish writers — and a Jewish scholar who worked tirelessly to bring Jews and Judaism closer together. Potok ...

In ”The Book of Lights” (1981) Chaim Potok drew upon his experience as a U.S. Army chaplain in South Korea from 1955 to 1957. In ”I Am the Clay,” his eighth novel, he draws upon it once again, this ...

Chaim Potok, who died on Tuesday aged 73, was a Rabbi, philosopher, historian, and novelist, whose stories depicted the life and culture of Orthodox Jews and the tensions between Judaism and the ...