Conversations with Chaim Potok presents interviews ranging from 1976 to 1999.
Each of his novels explores the tension between tradition and modernity, and the clash between Jewish culture and contemporary Western civilization, which he calls ‘core to core culture confrontation.’ Although primarily known as a novelist, Potok is an ordained Conservative rabbi and a world class Judaic scholar who has also published children’s books, theological discourses, biographies, and histories. 1929 is the author of such novels as The Chosen 1967, The Promise 1969, The Book of Lights 1981, and Davita’s Harp 1985. One of America’s most popular Jewish writers, Chaim Potok b. Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable and remarkably loved body of work. And, finally, we meet her in The Trope Teacher, in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in The War Doctor, her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors plot. In The Ark Builder, he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps.
Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.
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