A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this “profound and universal” ( The Wall Street Journal ) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. “Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops.” — Chicago Tribune It’s the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders have lived five blocks apart all their lives. But they’ve never met, not until the day an accident at a softball game sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon these two boys—one expected to become a Hasidic rebbe, the other at ease with secular America—are drawn into one another’s worlds despite a father’s strong opposition. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the creation of the state of Israel, The Chosen is a poignant novel about transformation and tradition, growing up and growing wise, and finding yourself—even if it might mean disappointing those you love.

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Books recommended:

• 📕  The Federalist Papers (Dover Thrift Editions: American History) by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
• 📘  Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
• 📗  American Constitutional Law, 3d (University Treatise Series) by Laurence Tribe
• 📙  The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics) by Roger Kahn
• 📕  The Chosen by Chaim Potok

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