The Chosen, My name is Asher Lev, In the Beginning, and The Book of Lights

Assimilate, Americans Jews of The Chosen of Potok, my name is Asher Lev, the book at the beginning and Light. The United States was always an immigrant country because it originally settled by Europeans over 500 years ago. Like other countries with many immigrants, Americans have always faced assimilation. Since the United States was founded and settled by immigration, her culture is a combination of cultures from other countries. Should these immigrants be separated from American mainstream culture or should they sacrifice their native country culture for the benefit of American culture? Especially Judaism

Both Chaim Potok's two most famous novels, The Chosen and My Name, are focused on a clever son who selects careers in the secular world, which makes their father very disappointed. In addition to "books of light" and "early", these books also focus on the integration of mainstream American culture Jews. Chaim Potok's novels are clearly Jewish, but regardless of ethnic background, they include a universal theme that applies to all.

Throughout his life, Potoc wrote eight novels, short stories and novels, and three children's books. In his most famous work, he was chosen, promised, my name is Asher Lev, Davita's harp, and I am clay. He is also the author of nonfiction books, wanderers, Jewish history of Chaim Potok, and many Torah comments. Potok quickly lost interest in the orthodox world and discovered that Yeshiva University is smoking intellectually. He received his master 's degree and appointment of rabbis from a conservative Jewish seminar, then served as an editor for conservative Jewish magazine.

Potok's 1985 novel Davita's Harp is his only book featuring women. In 1990, he announced a gift from Usher Lev, and the sequel of my name was Usher Lev. Potok wrote many dramas including his father's sin and abyss. In 1992, Potok completed another novel, and I was clay. And I talked about the brave fight of the family torn apart in the war. After his 1993 young adult literature "The Tree Here" there were two people, "The Current Sky" (1995) and "Zebra and Other Stories" (1998). Chaim Potok 's parents hinder him from writing and reading subjects other than Jews. He spent a lot of time reading the secular novels of public libraries. Potok lists James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, and S. Y. Agnon as major literary influences. Many of his novels were born in the city environment of New York where he grew up. Although not a Hashidic word, Potok was brought up in an extremely orthodox family.