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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Jewish Americans, Chaim Potok’s novel “The Chosen” was a mitzvah — Yiddish for “a good deed.” Yet this best seller about the rites of passage of two youths in the 1940s is also a gift to droves of ...

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 ...

If you’ve read Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen,” you know this story, but it bears repeating. Two teen boys live not quite five blocks apart in 1940s Brooklyn, but they’ve never met because they move in ...

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 ...