not the only one who has read 'THE CHOSEN' by Chaim Potok, since MIKEINRI recommends it also. I love that book - any other fans of this author out there?
2007-12-25 09:14:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
JEWCY - if people like the book, then the sequel is 'THE PROMISE' and is also great.
2007-12-25 09:53:18 · update #1
MAMA_PJAMA - I love 'My Name Is Asher Lev' - what's 'The Gift Of Asher Lev'??? Did Potok write a sequel? Oh, happy day!!!
2007-12-25 11:19:49 · update #2
NADINE - that's great thanks lots :) Sounds like a must-read for me!
2007-12-25 11:20:48 · update #3
I, too have read The Chosen many years ago and I loved it! I would like to recommend a book especially to you PB and to all the Jews (and others) on this board. It's called "The Avengers: A Jewish War Story. Rich Cohen, author of Tough Jews, has written what he calls "a Holocaust story without a concentration camp" about Jewish resistance fighters during World War II. The Avengers: A Jewish War Story describes how three young Jews--Cohen's cousin Ruzka Korczak, her friend Abba Kovner, and Kovner's future wife Vitka Klemperer--created an armed, underground movement behind the German lines in Poland with the goal of sabotaging the Nazis and helping the Russians advance. Cohen reports that Kovner described the group's dilemma this way: "If we act cowardly, we die; if we act courageously, we die. So we might as well act courageously." The group's fighting outlasted the war to exact revenge on the Nazis held in Nuremberg and finally to fight for Israel in the 1948 War for Independence. Researching The Avengers, Cohen spent time with the surviving resistance fighters in Israel and in Eastern Europe. The result is a deeply personal and impassioned defense of a movement that some readers will view with pride and others will condemn as vigilantism. This book, like Tough Jews, is a lively, intelligent, and heartfelt work of Jewish history. -- I was very moved and proud when I finished this book. It stirs up many emotions which I believe a good book should do.
2007-12-25 10:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've read both books and My Name is Asher Lev and The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok..but I STILL haven't seen the movie The Chosen. I think it starred a young Robbie Benson.
It has been a long time since I read those books..I may have to read them over again.
2007-12-25 10:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by ✡mama pajama✡ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
PB - I also read the "The Promise" as well and his book "Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews" that was published in 1978 (another great book - see: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780449215821&itm=3 ). I did a book report on the "The Chosen" when I was in the 11th grade and I was lucky enough that Chaim Potok himself came to the University of Rhode Island campus. I was able to speak to him about his book. He was a wonderful person to talk to. I was sad when he past away.
Good Luck!!!
2007-12-25 13:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Awesome book but I like the two Asher Lev books even better. I haven't read the Promise yet.
2007-12-25 10:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Originally book focused on just various world the central part of the book of some the world
2007-12-26 03:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by sundeep 9732 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great book and movie. Yes it stars a very young Robbie Benson. I also have a couple other books by him as well. I am having my teenage sons reading it.
2007-12-25 16:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by Yochanan B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our temple has a book club and that's the book everyone's reading right now. So far - very interesting!
2007-12-25 09:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Good book, good movie too.
2007-12-25 15:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by yutsnark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never even heard of it sorry.
2007-12-25 09:19:18 · answer #9 · answered by HopelessZ00 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
not really
2007-12-25 09:18:29 · answer #10 · answered by â?£[YKCIR]â?£ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋