Chaim Potok Biography

Chaim Potok biography

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NAME: Chaim Potok
OCCUPATION: Religious Leader, Editor, Author
BIRTH DATE: February 17, 1929
DEATH DATE: July 23, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH: The Bronx, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: Merion, Pennsylvania
Originally: Herman Harold Potok
AKA: Herman Potok
AKA: Chaim Potok

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Rabbi and author Chaim Potok wrote The Chosen, along with several other novels featuring characters grappling with clashing secular and religious views.

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Chaim Potok was born on February 17, 1929, in the Bronx, New York. In the 1950s, he became a conservative Rabbi. In 1967, he published his first novel, The Chosen, followed by a sequel two years later. He continued to publish novels about the clash between secular and religious views throughout the 1990s, while also working as a university professor. He died on July 23, 2002, in Merion, Pennsylvania.

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