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I loved this book. I feel like I learned a lot--about Orthodox Judaism, Hasidic Judaisim, and how Jewish people in America responded to the discovery of the concentration camps at the end of WWII. It's also a touching story about friendship and family that people of all backgrounds can appreciate. I knew I was really hooked, however, when I was reading it one morning on the train, and when my stop came up, I stood on the platform afterwards in order to finish reading this very exciting part--whe
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I remember reading and enjoying Chaim Potok’s The Chosen in High School, but I think i appreciated it even more as an adult. Reuven Malther is a modern Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn in the mid-1940s. He studied the Torah regularly with his father and attended a parochial school. At a baseball game against another school, Danny Saunders, the son of a Hasidic rabbi, hits a fast ball into Reuben’s eye, shattering his glasses and landing him in the hospital. From this u likely start, the two becom
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Very good. A little sad.
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