The Chosen

The book jacket tells us that this was the first book (published 1967) that introduced Jewish culture to a wide American audience. The story centers around two boys growing up in the Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn in New York City of the 1940’s. The main character is a high-school ag......more

Danny Saunders was raised in silence to save his soul. His father saw that his mind was so keen that his soul would be lost if there was not some awful tragedy to break his soul into a living space. So his father raised him in silence, never speaking to him until Danny learned to listen to that sile......more

I'm 23 years old and I've been reading for most of the time I've been alive. In all those years of reading, I can recall openly sobbing on only two occasions. The first time was in Little Women, when Beth March died. And the second time was in The Chosen, when Reb Saunders said this: "In the silence......more

My sincere apologies to the GR friend (whose name I forgot to write down) and whose review of this book sent me to the library to borrow it soon after reading their review. I owe you a debt of literary gratitude. This story was so much more than I expected. Despite being more than 50 years old (at le......more

Essere figli. Essere padri Questo bellissimo romanzo è la storia di un'amicizia fra due ragazzi. Vi è però molto di più : il rapporto di due figli coi rispettivi padri; il fronteggiarsi di due diverse concezioni e tradizioni pur all'interno della stessa religione ebraica... Le vicende si svolgono a N......more