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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Chaim Potok; Jan Lundius

Den utvalde

Den utvalde

Chaim Potok; Jan Lundius

Bakhåll
2023
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"Vi fröjdas och till och med gråter lite när vi följer Reuvens historia. En berättelse som stannar länge i minnet och trivs där." NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "Det här är en bok som får en att vilja stoppa alla man möter på gatan och fråga om de har upptäckt den." CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Den som hittar fram till denna bok hittar fram till en skatt." WALL STREET JOURNAL Chaim Potoks roman Den utvalde. Översättning Andreas Vesterlund, efterord Jan Lundius. Den vid det här laget legendariska romanen Den utvalde (The Chosen) utkom första gången 1967 i USA och blev omgående en osannolik bestseller. På bara ett år sålde den mer än tre miljoner exemplar. Allt sedan dess har boken haft kultstatus över hela världen och ständigt hittat fram till nya, alltid lika överrumplade läsare. Nu kommer den på svenska för första gången. Detta är en roman för alla och envar. En roman som kan läsas helt oberoende av vad man själv har för trosuppfattning eller rentav är övertygad ateist. Boken handlar om något så annorlunda som extrem ortodox judendom, alltså en mycket speciell verklighet, och den skildras inifrån. De två huvudpersonerna är ortodoxa judar i Brooklyn i New York. När boken börjar är båda femton år. Reuven Malters tillhör en modern ortodox judisk inriktning, han och hans far klär sig inte ortodoxt, de ägnar inte all sin tid åt det religiösa. Hans mor dog kort efter att han föddes, han har inga syskon. Han är mycket duktig i matematik men känner att han allra helst vill utbilda sig till rabbin, alltså till judisk vishetslärare - och då inom den mer världstillvända ortodoxa hållningen. Hans vän Danny Saunders däremot tillhör den extrema, ultra-ortodoxa judiska inriktningen - chassidismen. Han bor några kvarter längre bort i ett område med enbart chassider. Han bor med sin far, som är rabbin och tillika tzadik, rättfärdig ledare, och med sin mor, bror och syster. Danny är helt innesluten i den ultra-ortodoxa värld där man mest talar jiddish, där männen har spiralformade tinninglockar och bär svarta kaftaner och pälshattar och ägnar en stor del av sin tid åt att studera Talmud. Det är fråga om utantillärning och evighetslånga diskussioner av vad skrifterna har att säga i religiösa petimeterfrågor. Danny är sin fars äldste son och eftersom han är så oerhört duktig i sina Talmudstudier förväntas han överta faderns roll och bli rabbin och tzadik även han. Det stora problemet - romanens själva nerv - är att Danny har upptäckt andra sidor av tillvaron. Han vill studera andra ämnen. Helst skulle han vilja bli praktiserande psykolog, helt vanlig psykolog, han vill klippa av sig tinninglockarna, han vill lämna allt det ortdoxa. Men detta är omöjligt, otänkbart. Låter bokens handling väl enkel? Det är den inte. Faktum är att denna roman har förmågan att fullständigt fånga läsaren i sitt grepp. Man släpper inte boken ifrån sig förrän man läst ut den. Och efteråt undrar man vad det är för värld man vistats i under läsningen och hur den egentligen skiljer sig från ens egen. Chaim Potoks roman Den utvalde i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund och med efterord av Jan Lundius. ISBN 978-91-7742-594-6. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar. 272 sidor.
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

Pennsylvania State University Press
2013
sidottu
Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created unforgettable characters forging American identities for themselves while retaining their Jewish nature. The essays illuminate the central struggle in Potok's novels, which results from a profound desire to reconcile the appeal of modernity with the pull of traditional Judaism. The volume includes a memoir by Adena Potok and ends with Chaim Potok's "My Life as a Writer," a speech he gave at Penn State in 1982.Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Aarons, Nathan P. Devir, Jane Eisner, Susanne Klingenstein, S. Lillian Kremer, Jessica Lang, Sanford E. Marovitz, Kathryn McClymond, Hugh Nissenson, Adena Potok, and Jonathan Rosen.
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

Pennsylvania State University Press
2014
pokkari
Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created unforgettable characters forging American identities for themselves while retaining their Jewish nature. The essays illuminate the central struggle in Potok’s novels, which results from a profound desire to reconcile the appeal of modernity with the pull of traditional Judaism. The volume includes a memoir by Adena Potok and ends with Chaim Potok’s “My Life as a Writer,” a speech he gave at Penn State in 1982.Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Aarons, Nathan P. Devir, Jane Eisner, Susanne Klingenstein, S. Lillian Kremer, Jessica Lang, Sanford E. Marovitz, Kathryn McClymond, Hugh Nissenson, Adena Potok, and Jonathan Rosen.
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

Sanford Sternlicht

Greenwood Press
2000
sidottu
Since the publication of his first novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok has been regarded as one of the most important Jewish-American writers of our time. In that 1967 landmark work, in its sequel The Promise (1969), and in the other works that followed, Potok has explored the conflict between Jewish values and the secular American culture against which these enlightening stories are set. This full-length critical study introduces students to the powerful fiction of Potok. By examining in depth not only the spiritual elements but also the literary components that make works such as My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) best-sellers, this Critical Companion helps readers gain an appreciation for the considerable literary achievements of Potok. A close reading is given for each of Potok's eight novels, including his most recent work set in the Korean War, I Am the Clay (1992). A full chapter on each title examines character and plot development, major themes, and stylistic features. A discussion of the historical context as well as a close critical reading further enhances the understanding and appreciation of each work. This Critical Companion provides an up-to-date, detailed biography of Chaim Potok, examining his life as a man, as a rabbi, and as an artist. A literary heritage chapter explores the influences on Potok's writings, both literary and spiritual. This section helps students of all backgrounds understand the basic tenets and the important distinctions within contemporary Judaism. This discussion also examines what it means to be a Jewish-American writer. Full literary analysis of Potok's eight novels is provided, each book with its own chapter. A specially selected bibliography of reviews, criticism, and biographical information completes this volume.
Conversations with Chaim Potok

Conversations with Chaim Potok

University Press of Mississippi
2001
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One of America's most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok (b. 1929) is the author of such novels as The Chosen (1967), The Promise (1969), The Book of Lights (1981), and Davita's Harp (1985). Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls ""core-to-core culture confrontation."" Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world-class Judaic scholar who has also published children's books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories. Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999. Potok discusses the broad range of his writing and the deep influence of non-Jewish novels-in particular, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-on his work. Interviews bear witness to Potok's many other influences-Orthodox Jewish doctrine, Freudian psychoanalytical theory, Picasso's Guernica, and Jewish kabbalah mysticism. Though labeled an American Jewish writer, Potok argues that Flannery O'Connor should then be called an American Catholic writer and John Updike an American Protestant writer. ""In his mind,"" editor Daniel Walden writes, ""just as Faulkner was a writer focused on a particular place, Oxford, Mississippi, . . . so Potok's territory was a small section of New York City."" Potok often explores conflict in his writings and in his interviews. Strict Jewish teachings deem fiction an artifice and therefore unnecessary, yet since the age of sixteen Potok has been driven to write novels. At the root of all of these conversations is Potok's intense interest in the turmoil between Jewish culture, religion, and tradition and what he calls ""Western secular humanism."" As he discusses his work, he continually includes broader issues, such as the state of Jewish literature and art, pointing out with pride and enthusiasm his belief that Jewish culture, in the twentieth century, has finally begun to have a significant role in producing and shaping the world's art and literature. Whether discussing the finer details of Talmudic textual analysis or his period of chaplaincy during the Korean War, Potok is articulate and philosophical, bringing deep consideration into what may seem small subjects. Although his novels and histories take place primarily in the recent past, the Chaim Potok that emerges from this collection is a writer deeply rooted in the tensions of the present. Daniel Walden is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He has written or edited several books, including On Being Jewish (1974), Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers (1984), The World of Chaim Potok (1985), and American Jewish Poets: The Roots and the Stems (1990).
My Name is Asher Lev

My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Penguin Books Ltd
1974
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Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion.' Into it her poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.
The Chosen

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

Penguin Books Ltd
2009
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Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.
My Name is Asher Lev

My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Penguin Classics
2009
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Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.
Old Men at Midnight: Stories

Old Men at Midnight: Stories

Chaim Potok

Ballantine Books
2002
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From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men--stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In "The Ark Builder," he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in "The War Doctor," her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors' plot. And, finally, we meet her in "The Trope Teacher," in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife's illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal. Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok's newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable--and remarkably loved--body of work.
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

Chaim Potok

ALFRED A. KNOPF
1975
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"Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more--this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people. Learning how to remember his past as he nourishes the future, David struggles to complete his first long journey into ancient beginnings. "A major work in every sense."--Pittsburgh Press
The Gift of Asher Lev

The Gift of Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Fawcett
1997
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"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 NEWSTwenty 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 that Asher thought he had left behind forever....
I Am the Clay

I Am the Clay

Chaim Potok

Fawcett
1993
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"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEAs the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....
Davita's Harp

Davita's Harp

Chaim Potok

Random House Inc
1996
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For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.
The Gates of November

The Gates of November

Chaim Potok

Ballantine Books
1997
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"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston Globe The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a conflict that spans Soviet history. Drawing on taped interviews and his harrowing visits to Russia, Potok traces the public and privates lives of the Slepak family: Their passions and ideologies, their struggles to reconcile their identities as Russians and as Jews, their willingness to fight--and die--for diametrically opposed political beliefs. " A] vivid account . . . Potok] brings a novelist's passion and eye for detail to a gripping story that possesses many of the elements of fiction--except that it's all too true."--San Francisco Chronicle
My Name is Asher Lev

My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Random House Inc
1984
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The National Jewish Book Award-winning novel records the anguish, dreams, and triumphs of Asher Lev, a talented young painter raised in a cloistered Hasidic community in Brooklyn, as he struggles to resolve his gift of art with his religious background only to emerge into the great world of art, rejecting all else. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.