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Is it necessary to know the author in order to fully understand his/her story? The question is answered through the example of Chaim Potok’s life. The Chosen is one of Potok’s most famous works, for both its eloquent writing and its addressing of pressing issues for Jewish people. Chaim Potok, in his novel, The Chosen, alludes to aspects of his own childhood, education, and career to reveal and further characterize both Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders. The life of Chaim Potok is one which can…

During the end of my senior year in High School, an opportunity arose to travel to New York City, with my friend Zach. My school’s basketball team was participating in a National tournament at Yeshiva University, where my friend Zach’s brother had an apartment nearby in Washington Heights. Hearing about the safety issues in the Heights, my parents didn’t want me roaming around the city without any adult supervision. With the backing of my Uncle Richard, who live in the Upper East Side, I began…

1928, Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania. Wiesel’s parents, Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, named him Eliezer Wiesel. Elie Wiesel grew up with three sisters-Beatrice, Hilda, and Tzipora.Wiesel decided early on to focus on religious studies at a yeshiva near his home. He devoted his childhood to religious studies and his family. He also spoke Yiddish at home and became fluent in Hungarian, Romanian, and German. Surviving the Holocaust…

PGD: Prevent Giving Diseases For ages, it has been a natural instinct for animals to want to procreate to pass on their genes to future generations. Likewise, humans also share this instinct, but recent technology has taken this a step further, sparking a great deal of controversy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive technology which can be used in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the diagnosis of a genetic disease in embryos prior to implantation and…

Hiding and Seeking was Menachem Daum’s film that gave a social presentation Jews in German occupied Poland with the reaction of subsequent generations. The film shows the experience of two Jewish men gaining firsthand knowledge about their grandfather by their father’s trip to Poland through their reconsideration of personal views. The views of the two men evolved from an intolerant, anti-gentile view to a more accepting view of gentiles. Their grandfather had personally experiences which caused…

Further, Jews in the young Israeli state distanced themselves from the whole idea of the shtetl of peddlers and tradesmen. Jewish life centered on the marketplace and traditional Jewish institutions, the synagogue, Hebrew schools, Yeshivas (schools of higher learning), the home The market was the area where the shtetl came in direct contact with non-Jews, whose life patterns were alien and often hostile to the shtetl mores. But the shtetl was not a location so much as it was a Yiddish-…

for why he does not believe in God. This shows that Malamud was thinking away from God and towards Western ideas. Malamud even shows that he thinks his writing is more important than God. According to Malamud, “He seriously considered leaving the Yeshiva, although he was deeply troubled at the thought of the loss of all his years of study-saw them like pages torn from a book, strewn over the city-and at the devastating effect of this decision upon his parents.” (Malamud)This illustrates that…

My interview explored both the views of my father and I. My father’s religious upbringing was another focus of this interview. Throughout my interview I came to realize things about religion and spirituality. Religion is a very important aspect of my dad’s life and mine, both of us emphasis the sense of community that religion gives us. Another thing the conversation reaffirmed was my belief that questioning your beliefs is key part of religion. These ideas and others were reflected upon after…

His early years were mostly in accordance with the Jewish customs of the era; he attended a yeshiva where he studied under the rabbi of Smyrna and went through a thorough Talmudic training. At the age 16, however, he started living in semi-seclusion, lasting until 1648. During this period, he is said to have displayed a deranged character, exhibiting…

The conflict with family and faith is big and important. Having conflict with your family can really ruin a family and break it apart. Having conflict with faith leaves you confused and lost. In two of Chaim Potok’s novels, The Chosen and The Promise we see both conflict in family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith. To start off with Reuven and Danny become good friends after Danny nearly blinds Reuven during their intense softball game.…