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Best–selling author Chaim Potok (1929–2002) was the first Jewish American novelist to give a broad audience an inside look at the trials and tribulations of Orthodox Judaism.

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His exploration of the tensions between the traditional and the modern, the letter and the spirit, and the mystical and the rational within Judaism earned him a place of respect among critics and readers alike.

Early Life

Chaim Potok was born Herman Harold Potok on February 17, 1929, in New York City's Borough of The Bronx.

He was called by his Jewish name—Chaim Tzvi—which means "life" or "alive," and later adopted Chaim as his professional name as well. The oldest of four children, Potok's father Benjamin Max Potok and his mother Mollie (Friedman) both emigrated from Poland to the United States in the early 1920s.

Once settled in America, their family was caught, like so many others, in the economic difficulties of the Great Depression.

Potok and his siblings were raised in a strictly Ort