The Chosen, Chaim Potok
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
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The Chosen

Author: Chaim Potok

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/16/2005


Synopsis

Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds. Reuven blends easily into both his secular Jewish faith and his typical American teen life, while Danny's conservative Hasidic clothes and appearance make him stick out in any crowd. Their improbable friendship teaches them that the differences separating people through cultures and generations are never as great as they seem. It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on February 17, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Alisa on November 24, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Katie on June 27, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Heidi on June 26, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Emilio on February 26, 2018

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