Correspondence with Chaim Potok, 1994.

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Correspondence with Chaim Potok, 1994.

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Correspondence via fax regarding Potok's research of the Slepak family for The gates of November : chronicles of the Slepak family. Includes a letter to Leonid Slepak (6 leaves) from his mother Mariya regarding her father Solomon and the refuseniks.

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Slepak, Leonid.

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Slepak family.

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Slepak, Mariya

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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...