In Chaim Potok’s novel The Chosen, the young, intelligent Danny Saunders finds it difficult to follow in the footsteps of his father, the Hasidic rabbi Reb Saunders. Not only does he refuse to ...
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 ...