Chaim Potok: Maps of  Interview by Jeff Keuss, Connie McDougall
and Jennifer Johnson    Chaim Potok Speaks on  A Conversation
with Chaim Potok  Asher Lev and Discovering Your Gift
Additional Resources:  Chaim Potok's speech (Real Audio)
For the past three or four years, Chaim Potok has been
"rethinking and reworking" the subject matter for his writings.
A Potok novella will be released next year, along with a group
of short stories. "The new stuff is starting to come out," says
the writer, also an ordained rabbi. "And it will surprise some
people."  On October 29, Seattle Pacific University welcomed to
campus renowned author and scholar Chaim Potok. A professor of
philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, Potok has written
numerous novels: books which often examine coming-of-age
dilemmas in settings where culture, art and faith collide.  Born
in Brooklyn in 1929 to Polish immigrants, Potok was raised an
Orthodox Jew with the expectation that he would become a
Talmudic scholar. However, at age