The Promise
by Chaim Potok
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Author: Chaim PotokEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-08
ISBN: 1400095417
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Anchor
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9781400095414
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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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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