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Informationen zum Autor Chaim Potok Klappentext Born in 1929, Chaim Potok grew up and was educated in New York. After being ordained as a rabbi, he took a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked as a chaplain with the US Forces in Korea from 1955-57. His novels The Chosen , The Promise , In the Beginning , The Book of Lights , My Name is Asher Lev , The Gift of Asher Lev and I am The Clay , have all been published by Penguin. He is also the author of Wanderings , a history of the Jews; of a children's book, The Tree of Here ; and of three plays, Out of the Depths , Sins of the Father and The Play of Lights . He died in 2002. Shalom Auslander is the author of the memoir, The Foreskin's Lament (Picador 2007) and Beware of God , a collection of short stories about growing up Jewish (Picador 2006). His work has appeared in the New Yorker , the New York Times , and the Guardian , among others, and he is regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life." He lives in New York. Zusammenfassung Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the 20th century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.
