Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1999-2002.

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Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1999-2002.

Regarding Potok's short story Moon--included in Zebra and Other Stories--announcing the O. Henry Award for the 1999 Prize Stories.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7996587

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Potok, Chaim.

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Chaim Potok was born on 17 February 1929 in the Bronx, New York, to Benjamin Max Potok and Mollie Friedman Potok, who raiseds the eldest of their four children in the Orthodox Jewish faith. Potok attended Orthodox schools and graduated college with a degree in liberal arts and theology as a Conservative rabbi. After serving in the United States Army as a chaplain in Korea from 1955 to 1957, he taught at the University of Judaism and married Adena Sara Mosevitzsky in 1958. In 1966, after receivin...