HRW Library: Hrw Library : Individual Leveled Reader the Chosen (Hardcover)

from SeriousGrace

Danny Saunders and Rueven Malter shouldn't be friends. For starters, Danny almost blinded Reuven with a line drive straight to the head during a "friendly" baseball game in 10th grade. They have always been on opposite sides of the Jewish faith as well. Danny is a practicing Hasidic Jew and Rueve...

from thornton37814

Reuven "Bobby" Malter, son of a rabbi, teacher, and scholar, meets Danny Saunders, son of a Hasidic rabbi, on the baseball field. On that day, Reuven had been called from his usual position to pitch. After a couple of misses, Danny hits the ball straight into Reuven's eye. Reuven ends up in the h...

from AbigailAdams26

Potok was one of the giants of my adolescence, and I returned to his work countless times throughout my youth, always with a profound sense of coming home. It is an odd thing that an author whose oeuvre is infused with such a specifically Orthodox-Jewish worldview should speak so strongly to the ...

from lucybrown

Sight and Blindness. Silence and Conversation. Hassidim and Misnagdim. Ashkenazi and Sephardic. Mysticism and Rationalism. Danny Saunders and Reuven Malther. Rev Saunders and David Malther. Zionism and Anti-Zionism. A friendship blooms among dialectics. There are times when Potok's The Chosen is ...

from laudemgloriae

This is a captivating and touching story of friendship that endures despite differences, and conflicts. I think it's exceptional as far as coming of age stories go... there is something so honest about it, and the characters search for their identities, and their relationships with each other and...