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    Chaim Potok was a renowned American author born in 1929 in Brooklyn, NY to Polish immigrant parents with strong ties to Hasidic Judaism. He was writing fiction by age 16 and had his first story published at age 17. Potok graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English Literature in 1950 and was ordained as a Conservative rabbi four years later. His 1967 debut novel The Chosen was critically acclaimed for its portrayal of Orthodox Judaism and established his successful career as an author. Potok received numerous awards throughout his career for his novels that explored Jewish identity and tradition.

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    Chaim Potok was a renowned American author born in 1929 in Brooklyn, NY to Polish immigrant parents with strong ties to Hasidic Judaism. He was writing fiction by age 16 and had his first story published at age 17. Potok graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English Literature in 1950 and was ordained as a Conservative rabbi four years later. His 1967 debut novel The Chosen was critically acclaimed for its portrayal of Orthodox Judaism and established his successful career as an author. Potok received numerous awards throughout his career for his novels that explored Jewish identity and tradition.

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    Chaim Potok was a renowned American author born in 1929 in Brooklyn, NY to Polish immigrant parents with strong ties to Hasidic Judaism. He was writing fiction by age 16 and had his first story published at age 17. Potok graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English Literature in 1950 and was ordained as a Conservative rabbi four years later. His 1967 debut novel The Chosen was critically acclaimed for its portrayal of Orthodox Judaism and established his successful career as an author. Potok received numerous awards throughout his career for his novels that explored Jewish identity and tradition.

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    Ozmar Huerta

    October 19th, 2017


    Block 5 English One Honors

    Chaim Potok was considered one of the best american


    authors of all time his books such as “The Chosen”,”My name is
    Asher Lev”, and “The Book of Lights” have been on the New York
    best seller's list for weeks upon release and have won award
    after award and have been critically praised. Chaim Potok wasn't
    always an award winning author one just like all of us he was a
    young child. Chaim Potok was born in February 17, 1929, in
    Brooklyn, NY, was the son of Polish immigrants who had strong
    ties to Hasidism and was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home.
    Potok was just 16 when after reading Evelyn Waugh's novel
    Brideshead Revisited. Later that year he started writing his own
    fiction and at the age of 17 had submitted his story to the
    magazine The Atlantic Monthly where he didn't get his story
    published but received a note from the editor complementing his
    work. At the age of twenty his stories began being published in
    the literary magazine of Yeshiva University, which he also
    helped edit. In 1950, Potok graduated summa cum laude with a BA
    in English Literature. Later after four years of the Jewish
    Theological Seminary of America he was ordained a conservative
    rabbi.

    Having being influenced by the great minds of literacy such as


    Charles Dickens, Mark Twain,and William Faulkner at a young age,
    Potok formally began his career as an author and novelist in
    1967 with the publication of the Chosen which at the time was
    the only book from a major publisher to portray Orthodox Judaism
    at the time. The book went on to critical success critics
    praised the book for its detailed depiction of the closed
    Hasidic community, while many considered it to be an story about
    the survival of Judaism. Throughout his career he received
    multiple awards such as The Edward Lewis Wallant Award for The
    Chosen, the Athenaeum Prize for The Promise and The National
    Jewish Book Award for Fiction for My Name is Asher Lev.

    Sources Cited
    Jewish Virtual Library.org/Chaim Patok
    Cliff Notes.com/Chaim Potok Biography
    Potok Lasierra.edu/Potok.biographical

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