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Para Davita Chandal, crecer en Nueva York en las décadas de 1930 y 1940 es a la vez una experiencia de alegría indescriptible y de inconmensurable tristeza. Sus amorosos padres, ambos fervientes militantes comunistas, la contagian con el brillo feroz de la esperanza de un mundo nuevo y mejor. Pero las privaciones de la guerra y la Depresión se cobran su implacable peaje.
Inesperadamente, Davita encuentra en la fe judía —que hace largo tiempo...
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In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss,...
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While Chaim Potok is most famous for his novels, particularly his first book The Chosen (1967)-which was listed on The New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3, 400, 000 copies-he also wrote plays, which are collected and published here for the first time. Rena Potok edited the collection and wrote the introduction. This book features all five of Potok's plays, production notes on each of the plays, prefaces by the directors,...
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