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1	My Name is Asher Lev more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist Considered Potok's greatest book, this 1972 novel is about Asher Lev's attempts to function as an artist--a goal that is sometimes in conflict with his Orthodox Jewish background. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Chosen more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist In Potok's first novel, Danny Saunders must reconcile his rigidly repressive Hasidic heritage with his thirst for secular knowledge, and with his friendship with Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew. As always, Potok's primary concern is the way Jewish traditions often conflict with the values of contemporary society, and how a sensitive, thinking person ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by), Vaclav Havel (Afterword by) add to wishlist Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $9.45! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Wanderings more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $79.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Gift of Asher Lev more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist This 1990 novel continues the story begun in "My Name Is Asher Lev" (1972), about an Orthodox Jew who is forced into alienation and exile because of his subversive art. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Promise more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew, is poised between his background and the fanatical extremism he encounters as a result of his friendship with the family of his Hasidic friend Danny Saunders. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Davita's Harp more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	In the Beginning more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically reassessing what it means for him to be a Jew. The author also wrote "The Chosen". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.08! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The chosen; a novel. more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
10	I Am the Clay more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist Short novel set during the Korean War. An old peasant and his wife find a boy in a ditch during some shelling and take him on their journey as refugees. They dicover that the boy seems to carry a life force on which their survival may depend. Potok is the author of "My name is Asher Lev". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	My First 79 Years more books like this by Isaac W Stern, Chaim Potok add to wishlist In this autobiography, internationally acclaimed violinist Isaac Stern discusses memorable performances of his contemporaries, including Naoum Blinder, Pierre Monteux, and Leonard Bernstein. He also recalls his early days in San Francisco, where he was raised by his Russian-Ukrainian immigrant parents, and describes his first musical inspirations. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Book of Lights more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist With Gershon, a young student, and his friend Arthur, son of a famous nuclear physicist, this novel takes the reader from New York, to the Korean War, to Hiroshima and Jerusalem. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Old Men at Midnight more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist Potok's novel encompasses the lives of three Jews in episodes set in 1947, the 1950s, and the 1990s. A woman named Ilana Davita Dinn--a writer--is the constant in each of these segments, and her function is usually to be the recipient of the secrets and dreams of others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.85! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Zebra & Other Stories more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist Six short stories in which young people face difficult situations and life changing events. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Chosen: With Connections more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.72! \| SVS
16 view cover	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Childrn's Drawings & Poems Fr Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by) add to wishlist Published to coincide with the opening in April 1993 of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this collection of drawings and poetry documents the terrible daily misery endured by these children. Of the 15,000 children under the age of 15 who passed through this camp, fewer than 100 survived. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from $11.93! new only from $90.90!
17 view cover	Gates of November more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist A work of nonfiction that chronicles the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son in the Soviet Union. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist A work of nonfiction that chronicles the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son in the Soviet Union. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	The Tree of Here more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist One of the best-known and most-beloved novelists of our time teams up with a Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator to create a wonderful tale about having to say goodbye and starting over. Distressed over moving, Jason climbs up in a tree and pours out his fears in this sensitive story. Full color. CC see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Wanderings -2 more books like this by Chaim Potok add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	The Chosen: And Related Readings by Chaim Potok add to wishlist In Potok's first novel, Danny Saunders must reconcile his rigidly repressive Hasidic heritage with his thirst for secular knowledge, and with his friendship with Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew. As always, Potok's primary concern is the way Jewish traditions often conflict with the values of contemporary society, and how a sensitive, thinking person ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
22	Graven Images: Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Grave Stone more books like this by Arnold Schwartzman, Chaim Potok (Foreword by) add to wishlist A spirited view of a somber subject, this book is a treasury of Jewish history, legend and lore. Over 200 photographs offer a look at the graven images that have traditionally decorated Jewish tombstones in Europe. see all copies from $3.46! new only from $37.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	CliffsNotes on Potok's the Chosen more books like this by Chaim Potok, Cliffs Notes, Stephen J Greenstein add to wishlist Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen, an admittedly autobiographical portrait of growing up Jewish in America, focuses on the challenge of living a religious life in a secular society. Through the budding friendship of an ultrareligious Hasidic Jew (Danny Saunders) and a Modern Orthodox Jew (Reuven Malter), readers learn what it takes to be a committed, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| SVS
24	Promise -1 by Chaim Potok add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.75! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Sky of Now more books like this by Chaim Potok, Tony Auth (Illustrator) add to wishlist Beloved storyteller Chaim Potok and Pulitzer Prize-winning ilustrator Tony Auth craft a many-layered tale about a boy who learns to soar above his fear. When Brian's uncle offers him a ride in his glider plane for his birthday, Brian is afraid he'll never make it. Once he's airborne, the worry that he will crash or fall takes a back seat to the ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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