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Living Out A Chaim Potok Novel
When I was 14 and 15 (1980-1981), my family and I read all (or almost all) of Chaim Potok‘s novels about Judaism. They reminded us of what dad had gone through with the legalistic — in our view — Seventh-Day … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Jews, Personal
Tagged chaim potok, chaim potok novel, Dennis Prager, Don Etra, dustin hoffman, george bush at yale, henry waxman, jeremy kagan
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My Name Is Asher Lev
I discuss this novel with Monica, an English Literature professor. We were prompted with these questions by another English Lit professor — a Christian — who’s teaching the book to her class: 1. Early on in My Name Is Asher … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged asher lev, chaim potok, jewish soul, lit professor, literature professor, tractate sanhedrin
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Inside American Jewish Literature
I call English Literature professor Sanford Pinsker Friday morning, Dec. 19, 2009. I was provoked by this essay of his on Jewish literature. Luke: "Is it OK to make pleasure your primary criteria for reading? Or is that shallow?" Sanford: … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Literature
Tagged chaim potok, exquisite pleasure, high school kids, religious agendas, sanford pinsker, saul bellow
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What Jewish Writers Need
I found this essay provoking: I knew that serious Jewish-American writers were in trouble several decades ago when I began giving my classes in “Jewish-American Fiction” a chance to vote on their favorite text in a survey course that included … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Literature
Tagged abraham cahan, chaim potok, cynthia ozick, jonathan safran foer, pearl abraham, post modernism
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