Chaim Potok Boeken

Een jonge joodse jongen in New York komt in de jaren '20 voor de keuze te staan jodenhaat al of niet met geweld te beantwoorden.

Het boek van het licht beschrijft de ontwikkeling van Gershon Loran, een stille, teruggetrokken jongen wiens leven wordt getekend door oorlogsgeweld. Hij groeit op bij zijn oom en tante in een armoedige buurt in New York, nadat zijn ouders in Palestina als toevallige passanten bij een vuurgevecht om het leven zijn gekomen. Zijn enige neef, de vriend van zijn kinderjaren, sneuvelt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog als gevechtspiloot. Alternative cover isbn 9062913733 isbn13 9789062913732

Kroniek van een Russisch-joodse familie waarvan de vader nog overtuigd communist is, maar de zoon dissident.

Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion.' Into it her poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.

First publication of the complete plays of Chaim Potok. With the exception of the The Chosen, none have been previously available.

Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he' s in love, and he' s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders now a psychologist with a growing reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael, Reuven and Danny each learns what it is to take on life whether sacred truths or a troubled child according to his own lights, not just established authority. In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one' s own way in the world

Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever....

A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.