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The Promise
by Chaim Potok

The Promise
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Author: Chaim Potok
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-08
ISBN: 1400095417
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Reviews of The Promise

Book Review: A historical and psychological novel.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a surprisingly tense story about two Jewish young men, one Orthodox and one Hasidic, in New York in the early 1950s. They are both caught up, in different ways, in the struggles between Orthodox and reformed Jewish scholars, as they try to make sense of their Jewishness in the post-Holocaust world. As a non-Jew, I found the novel gripping and fascinating. I highly recommend it.

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