Chaim Potok Livres

Dans le Brooklyn des années cinquante, Reuven Malter et Dany Saunders auront à lutter pour rester fidèles à leur promesse et vivre conformément à leurs croyances et à leurs idéaux.

" Avec L'Elu, Chaïm Potok a écrit un des plus beaux romans de ces dernières années. II faut lire une centaine de pages pour entrer dans la magie de cette communauté juive new-yorkaise où hassidiques et sionistes vivent ensemble et se détestent. A l'occasion d'un match de base-ball, deux adolescents exceptionnels des deux communautés vont devenir amis et surmonter les obstacles. Tout y est : la tendresse du père, l'amitié plus forte que la mort, la connaissance source de vie. On se prend même à se passionner pour les querelles théologiques du Talmud. " Le Figaro.

Aujourd'hui, Brian est allé avec ses parents visiter la statue de la Liberté. Arrivé tout en haut, dans la tête de la statue, Brian s'est approché de la vitre et il a regardé en bas. Il a eu très peur, ses genoux tremblaient et il s'est senti tomber, tomber... Est-ce que c'est ça, avoir le vertige ? Comment pourra-t-il devenir pilote, comme son Oncle Conor, s'il a le vertige ? Ce que ne sait pas encore Brian, c'est que son Oncle Conor, justement, lui a préparé une incroyable surprise pour ses dix ans. La surprise s'appelle Roi du ciel. Elle attend au bout d'un champ immense. " Est-ce que tu veux toujours devenir pilote ? " demande Oncle Conor.

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here Asher Lev plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads.

Twenty 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....

The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture. Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers into the dramatic era of Rabbinic Judaism. Watch the great Talmudic sages at work in the Sanhedrin, eavesdrop on their arguments about theology and Torah, and agonize with them as they contemplate rebellion against an oppressive Roman rule. But Steinberg's classic novel also transcends its historical setting with its depiction of a timeless, perennial feature of the Jewish experience: the inevitable conflict between the call of tradition and the glamour of the surrounding culture. In his illuminating foreword, specially commissioned for this edition, Chaim Potok stresses the contemporary relevance of As a Driven Leaf: This novel of ideas and passions... retains its ability to enter the heart of pious and seeking Jew alike. Synagogues everywhere are adopting As a Driven Leaf for group study.

David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everything he has been taught....

For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.

Twenty 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....