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It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

Chaim Potok

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...

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About Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times’ bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.