id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8605 Chaim Potok - Wikipedia .html text/html 2277 266 68 Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. In 1949, at the age of twenty, his stories were published in the literary magazine of Yeshiva University, which he also helped edit. In 1964 the Potoks moved to Brooklyn, where Chaim became the managing editor of the magazine Conservative Judaism and joined the faculty of the Teachers' Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The following year, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and later, chairman of the publication committee.[5] During this time, Potok received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1975, he published In the Beginning.[7] From 1974 until his death, Potok served as a special projects editor for the Jewish Publication Society. Sternlicht Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion 2000 page 8 "...to work with the Jewish Publication Society of America, while making his final revisions of The Chosen, published in 1967. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8605.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8605.txt