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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim
Summary: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: The novel, set in the Bronx, New York, concerns a gifted Jewish boy who becomes a Biblical scholar. From shortly after birth, in the 1920's, David Lurie is plagued by illnesses that prove to be emblematic of his growing up. He is bullied by bigger boys, haunted by the "accidents" that he brings upon others, safe only within his pious home. David's inner life, tortured with fears and bad dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year." THE DETROIT NEWS 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A collection of stories about six different young people who each experience a life-changing event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A Jewish girl in 1930s New York looks past her parents' idealism in search of something to comfort her as she observes discord and disunity everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: "The novelist records the anguish and triumps of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1972
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Contents: The ark builder -- The war doctor -- The trope teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTBenson, Robby
Summary: Explores the friendship between an Orthodox Hasidic Rabbi and the son of a progressive Jewish family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2010