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Revisiting The Chosen.
More than other American Jewish novelists of his generation, Chaim Potok brought to his writing deep and extensive knowledge of Jewish history and sacred texts, knowledge that he put to much use in his 1967 bestseller The Chosen. Allegra Goodman revisits the book:
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How Chaim Potok’s Fiction Exposes the Music of Religious Life
Revisiting The Chosen.