Religion and culture

   shouldn’t be obstacles…

Book review:

The Chosen

by Chaim Potok, New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1967.

It’s really hard cheese to read this and try to be sympathetic to both Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter.

If Potok’s insights into Hasidic and otherwise orthodox Jewish culture are accurate, they are depressing. This is a window on the sadly distracted world of so many human beings with the limitations and constraints of their culture and religion.

For a book review, and in real life, it is difficult to think of Danny or Reuven living a productive, exuberant, joyous, emotional, and morally satisfying life.

Their religion and culture put too many obstacles in their path.

As usual, I offer my kind of thoughtful book summary. For readers like me, this book is a knockout learning experience. The characters and the plot are unfamiliar. I offer my reflections on the milieu of the lives of these young men.

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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

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Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.)

         and Joseph L. Galloway

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