The Chosen is a novel/play written by Chaim Potok. It was published in 1967. It follows the main character Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in New York in the 1940s.

Gottlieb saw the potential in Chaim Potok’s book, thinking it might introduce gentile readers and secular Jews like himself to the world of Orthodoxy while telling a universal story about ...