Book · 1967 · Fiction

The Chosen

Name: The Chosen
Author: Chaim Potok

Fawcett Crest · 271 pages

★ 5.2 editorial score

Two Brooklyn boys meet when one's line drive shatters the other's glasses at a yeshiva ball game. Danny, raised in silence to inherit a Hasidic dynasty, is secretly reading Freud in German.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Friendship Judaism Loss of faith Fathers and sons

Setting

New York City

Time

1967Depicts 1940s

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