Potok, Chaim

David Lurie, a young Jewish boy growing up in the Bronx in the years leading up to World War II, learns to deal with the challenges of neighborhood bullies and his own frail health, which gives him the courage to follow his own personal path of belief in spite of opposition.

Gershon Loran, a young rabbi drawn to Jewish mysticism, begins to question his faith when he is drafted to serve as a chaplain in postwar Korea.

Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.

Against his will Asher returns to Brooklyn and faces the conflict of the culture he was born into and the culture he forged for himself.

A Jewish girl in the New York of the 1930s looks past her parents' idealism in search of something to comfort her as she sees discord and disunity everywhere.

The making of a great contemporary painter from the first stirrings of a commanding talent to the triumphant exhibition that wins recognition for his art and marks his final, heartrending estrangement from the world in which he was born.

Sequel to: "The chosen." Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter now separated by occupation and personal involvements, are brought together by Michael Gordon, an adolescent heading for a breakdown.