![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I remember most about reading The Chosen when I was a young mother was the tenderness with which Potok told his story here was a man trained as a rabbi who could see all sides of an age-old story and whose prose was a pleasure to read-graceful, yet compelling. Its appeal comes from its very specific look at the conflicting ideals of two Jewish fathers in Williamsburg (a section of Brooklyn) from 1944 to 1948 and how their differing ideas influence the next generation yet create a unique and touching bond. in a way that will ring just as true in Iowa as in Brooklyn.” Although New Yorker readers were beginning to read stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, this was the first time a novel about Orthodox Jews had gained such a wide audience. Potok is writing about two fathers and their sons. When The Chosen was published in 1967, it soon became read not only in Hebrew schools and synagogue book groups but all over the country. A scene from the Barrington Stage Company production of “The Chosen.” Photo: Scott Barrow ![]()
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