Chaim Potok
Novelist, Author
1929 – 2002
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Who was Chaim Potok?
Chaim Potok was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, a 1967 novel which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1929
Buffalo - Also known as
- Chaim Tzvi
- C Potok
- Herman Harold Potok
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Yeshiva University
English Literature - University of Toronto Mississauga
- University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Arts, Yeshiva University
- Died
- Jul 23, 2002
Merion
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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