![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis reminds us, do not essentially exist in words at all.'' Reviewing the novel in The New York Times Book Review, Hugh Nissenson wrote: ''Long afterwards, it remains in the mind, and delights. Unlike the work of the novelists Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, which dealt largely with the neuroses of assimilated secular Jews, ''The Chosen'' was the first American novel to make the fervent, insular Hasidic world visible to a wide audience. Potok came to international prominence in 1967 with his debut novel, ''The Chosen'' (Simon & Schuster). He had been ill with cancer for some time, his wife, Adena Potok, said. Chaim Potok, a scholar and ordained rabbi whose best-selling novels about Hasidic Judaism explored the wrenching decision to forsake a close-knit parochial community for the world outside, died yesterday at his home in Merion, Pa. ![]()
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