Chaim Potok Knihy

Kniha o neľahkej ceste maliara za svojím umeleckým snom a vyslobodení sa zo zovretia ortodoxnej židovskej komunity, ktorá z umelca prijíma len jeho časť a zvyšok nie je schopná akceptovať.

Maliar Ašer Lev žije vo Francúzsku po tom, čo po namaľovaní kontroverzného Ukrižovania bol požiadaný aby opustil svoju židovskú komunitu v Brooklyne. Jedného dňa sa však dozvie o smrti svojho strýka a spolu so svojou rodinou prichádza na pohreb do Ameriky. No miesto týždňa smútku ostáva dlhšie a jeho život a život jeho rodiny sa začína uberať úplne iným smerom ako si dovtedy predstavoval.

Posledný predsmrtný román židovského amerického spisovateľa Chaima Potoka je v skutočnosti trilógiou noviel. Životy troch židovských mužov v ňom spája letmé stretnutie s rovnakou ženou: s Ilanou Davitou Dinn. Noah Stremin, chlapec, ktorý vďaka svojmu nadaniu prežil Osvienčim, ju spoznáva ako mladú stredoškoláčku a doučovateľku angličtiny, bývalý plukovník ruskej tajnej služby Leonid Šertov ako odbornú asistentku katedry rusistiky a Benjamin Walter, profesor sociológie a vojenstva ako starnúcu známu spisovateľku. Je to práve Davita, ktorá im pomôže rozmotať klbko spomienok na prežité svetové aj osobné vojny a zranenia z nich, aby mohli na pozadí veľkého príbehu 20. storočia vyrozprávať v knihe svoje vlastné príbehy.

Meistererzählungen des großen jüdisch-amerikanischen Romanciers – bitterzarte Geschichten vom Erwachsenwerden und Momentaufnahmen der amerikanischen Gegenwart Chaim Potoks Geschichten erzählen von den großen und kleinen Begebenheiten, die ein junges Leben erschüttern können: ein Unfall, der Verlust eines lieben Menschen, die Entdeckung der Schatten, die über einer Familie liegen, oder der Geheimnisse, die sich dicht unter der Oberfläche eines heilen Familienlebens verbergen. Sie stehen – manche urplötzlich, manche langsam aus der Erinnerung aufsteigend – am Beginn des Erwachsenenlebens. Junge Leser erfahren in diesen Geschichten mehr über Amerika als in noch so vielen Hollywood-Filmen.

“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” — The Philadelphia InquirerYoung Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer — Reuven battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought…

David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief that diverges sharply with his devout father and everything he has been taught....

A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.

For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great historical events, exporing Jewish life in its infinite variety and in many eras and places, here is a unique work by a singular Jewish voice.

With Gershon, a young student, and his friend Arthur, son of a famous nuclear physicist, this novel takes the reader from New York, to the Korean War, to Hiroshima and Jerusalem.