The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Chaim Potok
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Book Summary Author: Chaim Potok Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1996-08-27 ISBN: 0449911543 Number of pages: 284 Publisher: Ballantine Books Product features:
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Book Reviews of the The Chosen (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Customer Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
Nothing in this book made sense. The friendship between the boys is a good prompt for a story, but the events leading up to it are clumsy. Danny Saunders has absolutely no reason to befriend Reuben Malter; when they first meet, he calls him an "apikoret" (heretic), then feels bad when he hits him in the eye with a baseball. What exactly is Danny's reason for wanting Reuben as a friend? Does he need an outsider to talk to? Is he looking to learn about the outside world?
This business of "raised in silence" is absolutely alien to me or any psychologist, Jewish or otherwise, that I've inquired. A central part of the book is that Danny Saunders is "raised in silence" with his father never speaking to him. I've known psychologists who found disorders and habits unique to Hassidic Jews in Eastern Europe, but none of them ever encoutered this problem. Chaim Potok simply crafted a load of hokey to give the book a bit more jive.
If you're a gentile and you want to learn about how Ashkenazi Jews think, don't read this book.