![]() Between the years 19 he was a chaplain with the US Army, more than fifteen months of his service being in Korea with a front-line medical battalion and an engineering combat battalion. At the age of 25 he was ordained a Conservative rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in New York City in the Bronx as the eldest son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. A central theme in Potok’s novels is the tension between Judaism and the values and culture of modern society. Throughout his publishing career Potok has written scholarly and popular articles and reviews. Potok’s works in the 1980s have been autobiographical. If you have benefitted from any of our materials, and/or if making Unitarian Universalist intellectual heritage materials widely available and free is a value to you, please donate whatever you can–every little bit helps: DonateĬhaim Potok is a rabbi and author whose novels depict the life and culture of Orthodox Jews. Harvard Square Library exists solely on the basis of donations. ![]()
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