Books with author Chaim Potok

The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself: one is to acquire a teacher, the other is to choose a friend. The Greeks say that two friends are like one soul with two bodies. Set in New York toward the end of WW II, this is the story of two teenage Jewish boys, one the son of a Zionist, the other of a Russian Hassidic. They turn to each other in a fine show of male bonding. "A jewel...profound and universal...to be read and reread." (The Wall Street Journal)

"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."THE DETROIT NEWSTwenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world that Asher thought he had left behind forever....