"With The Chosen, Chaim Potok wrote one of the finest novels of recent years. One must read a hundred pages to get into the magic of this community New York, where Jewish and Zionist Hasidic live together and hate each other. On the occasion of a baseball game, two exceptional young of the two communities will become friends and overcome obstacles. Everything is there: the father's affection, friendship stronger than death, source of life knowledge. We even took a passion for theological quarrels of the Talmud. "Le Figaro.
It is difficult, difficult to advise a book, especially to someone you do not know not, or not well. And for that I thank Ms. Boukhobza to me about this book and advise me to read. Otherwise, I'd definitely missed out on a small nugget. Especially since I had hands an old edition, leaves yellowed by time, and the characteristic smell of old paper.
We are in New York, specifically in Brooklyn on the eve of the Allied invasion of Western Europe. It all starts in the ferocity of a baseball game, masterfully told (point to make it exciting) during which two teams compete with radically different religious views.
In this confrontation, will rise to a strong friendship between Reuven, education on the world, and Danny, education highly folded on the community to which his family belongs. Nothing unites them, or their past or their future more or less mapped out for them, and yet ... ... ... This friendship will allow everyone to find his way, will allow everyone to free itself from its environment. Everyone learns from each other, feed each other, takes a step towards each other despite the objections sometimes radical of their fathers.
Although the narrator is Reuven, are views will not be privileged either.
Like Father, it will be much discussed in this fabulous story. Transmitting each of the fathers to make their son is one thing that they retain, and what they will be next. Everyone take his hand and his own experience will
The relationship with the father is very strong in both families. There is very little mention of the mother: Reuven has lost his early on, that of Danny is very faded. This surprised me, since Jewishness is transmitted by the mother.
Although very present, the religious question is not stuffy. In many ways, I learned about the practices, conceptions of Jewishness, the consequences have had on the last World War II.
"The Talmud says that everyone must do two things for yourself. The first is to find a master. The second is to choose a friend. "
" Two true friends are like two bodies have one soul. "
" Reuven, as you take of the age, you'll notice that the most important things often come to you as if they were only the consequences of some facts idiots, as you say would be more ordinary facts right. So goes the world. "
-Calmann-Levy (1969) Paperback / 10 / 18 editions (1998 and 2004) - 310/381 pages
Chaim Potok was born in 1929 in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents. graduate of Yeshiva University in 1950, Chaim Potok received rabbinical ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He served as chaplain during the Korean War. He has taught at various universities (Los Angeles and Philadelphia) before becoming editor at the Jewish Publication Society of America. He is the author of an extensive cover, including many novels - including The Book of Lights (1997), My Name Is Asher Lev (2002), Doctor Rubinov (2002). Chaim Potok died in 2002.
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