Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel Walden
Part 1 The Novels
1 The Chosen: Defining American Judaism
Kathryn McClymond
2 The Three-Pronged Dialectic: Understanding Conflict in Potok’s Early Fiction
Jessica Lang
3 Guardians of the Torah: Ambiguity and Antagonism in The Promise
Victoria Aarons
4 Daedalus Redeemed: Asher Lev’s Journey from Rebellion to Rapprochement
S. Lillian Kremer
5 Davita’s Harp: The Silence of Violence and the Limits of the Imagination
Susanne Klingenstein
6 The Book of Lights: A Book of Choices
Sanford E. Marovitz
7 History and Responsibility: An Assessment of Potok’s “Non-Jewish” I Am the Clay
Nathan P. Devir
Part 2 Looking Back: Memories of Potok
8 Choosing the Chosen: A Reappraisal of The Chosen
Hugh Nissenson
9 Chaim Potok: A Zwischenmensch (“Between Person”) in the Cultures
Daniel Walden
10 Chaim Potok and the Question of Jewish Writing
Jonathan Rosen
11 Chaim Potok: A Literary Biography
Adena Potok
12 Chaim Potok Is No Longer With Us, but His Lessons Remain
Jane Eisner
13 Adena Potok on I Am the Clay
Nathan P. Devir
14 Chaim Potok: My Life as a Writer
Chaim Potok
Contributors
Index