Writing about Jewish communities post-Holocaust forced Chaim Potok to reckon with a painful, traumatic cultural history that colored the experience of everyone in his life and in his community. This, combined with the advent of Zionism created a space fraught with conflict over the direction that a Jewish future should take. Potok contrasted this division, as always with understanding: never letting anyone forget the common humanity of those in conflict.

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