Writings About Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok by Marius Buning

Walden, Daniel, ed. "The World of Chaim Potok."
Studies in American Jewish Literature. Number 4.
State University of New York Press, 1985.
A rich source of early references about Chaim Potok.

Daniel Walden, Introduction

Leslie Field, Chaim Potok and the Critics: Sampler from a Consistent Spectrum

Joan Zlotnick, The Chosen Borough: Chaim Potok's Brooklyn

Daniel Walden, Chaim Potok: A Zwischenmensch in the Cultures

S. Lillian Kremer, Dedalus in Brooklyn: Influences of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on My Name is Asher Lev

Sanford Pinsker, The Crucifixion of Chaim Potok / The Excommunication of Asher Lev: Art and the Hasidic World

Joan Del Fattore, Women as Scholars in Chaim Potok's Novels

Sanford Marowitz, The Book of Lights: Jewish Mysticism in the Shadow of the Bomb

S. Lillian Kremer, Interview with Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok, The First Eighteen Years

Cynthia Fagerheim, Chaim Potok: A Bibliographic Essay

Linda Zatlin, Cynthia Ozick, Levitation: Five Fictions, a review

Newspaper Article About Chaim Potok
Times-Picaynune, Feb 25, 1973

Newspaper Article About Chaim Potok
Philadelphia Bulletin, May 16, 1974

Newspaper Article About Chaim Potok
Fort Lauderdale News, Mar 22, 1976

Newspaper Article About Chaim Potok
Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr. 27, 1976

Jaye, Michael C. and Watts, Ann Chalmers
Cultural Confrontation in Urban America: A Writers Beginnings"
in Literature and the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature
Rutgers University Press, 1981 (p. 161-167)

Kauvar, Elaine M.
An Interview with Chaim Potok.
Contemporary Literature. Vol. 27, No. 3.
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Abramson, Edward A.
Chaim Potok.
Twayne Publishers, 1986.

Kremer, S. Lillian.
Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature.
Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Purcell, William F.
Potok's Fathers and Sons
Studies in American Literature. Vol 26 (Feb 1990)

 

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