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Chaim Potok

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jul 23, 2002
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Buffalo NY
About
Orthodox Jewish-raised author who wrote The Chosen, a novel that provides a glimpse into the insular world of Hasidim. His other literary works include My Name is Asher Lev (1972) and In the Beginning (1975).
Family
He was born in The Bronx, New York, as the oldest of four children in an Orthodox Jewish family. In 1958, he wed social worker Adena Sara Mosevitzsky; together, the couple had three children.

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