![]() ![]() ![]() Yet for all the suffering they undergo in this process, and despite the relentless psychological motion through which Potok pushes and pulls them, his characters display no real understanding of the dilemma which they have been chosen to exemplify, which is nothing short of the dilemma of modern religious Judaism itself. The protagonists of Chaim Potok’s novels- The Chosen, The Promise, and now My Name is Asher Lev-follow a common career in the course of the narrative they are seen moving slowly and with agonizing reluctance out of, and away from, the religious community in which they were born and brought up (a highly sentimentalized version of Brooklyn’s Williamsburgh or Crown Heights section twenty years ago) and into secular society. ![]()
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