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The essays in this part of the book approach Chaim Potok’s novels from a scholarly and critical perspective, situating them within the context of Jewish American literature and analyzing the historical and cultural influences on Potok’s writing. The authors consider the struggles and conflicts in the novels that arise from the confrontation of modernity and traditional Judaism, and they recognize the ways in which Potok’s personal experience of such confrontation richly informed his work. the novels PART 1 ...

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