Chaim Potok

New to Penguin Modern Classics, a timeless tale of divided generations and enduring friendship. Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to...

The Chosen is a coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s. This "profound and universal" (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. "Works of this calibre should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops." --Chicago Tribune It's the spring of 1944,...