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  <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. 

His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. 

He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Bronx</hometown>  <born_at>02/18/1929</born_at>  <died_at>07/23/2002</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Chosen]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
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  <published>1967</published>  
  
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        <book id="11507">
  <title><![CDATA[My Name Is Asher Lev]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
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  <published>1972</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Promise]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.01</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2345</ratings_count>
  <published>1969</published>  
  
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        <book id="11502">
  <title><![CDATA[The Gift of Asher Lev]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1529</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Davita's Harp]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1240</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="11503">
  <title><![CDATA[In the Beginning]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.97</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>444</ratings_count>
  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Lights]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>412</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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        <book id="11504">
  <title><![CDATA[I Am the Clay]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.41</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>325</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Old Men at Midnight]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.42</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>212</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wanderings]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Chaim Potok]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>183</ratings_count>
  <published>1979</published>  
  
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