Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967), was listed on The New York Times’ bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and which was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
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Fiction, Jews, Jews, fiction, Jewish families, Biography, Communists, History, Large type books, New york (n.y.), fiction, Family, Fiction, general, Judaism, Artists, Families, Fathers and sons, Fiction, jewish, Jewish artists, Jewish communists, Jewish ethics, Korean War, 1950-1953, Literature, Refuseniks, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, 1920-, American Short storiesPlaces
New York, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), United States, Soviet Union, Brooklyn, N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York, Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.), France, New York (N.Y.)People
Isaac Stern (1920-2001), Mariya Slepak, Slepak family, Solomon Slepak (1893-1978), Vladimir Slepak (1927-), Chaim Potok, Isaac Stern, Théo Tobiasse (1927-)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL217374A
- ISNI: 0000000117629380
- VIAF: 51694687
- Wikidata: Q560735
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q560735
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- C Potok
- CHAIM POTOK
- Chaim potok
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