"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Chaim Potok was an American author and rabbi known for novels about Jewish identity and tradition in modern life. His best-known works include The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. Potok's fiction became widely read in both literary and religious communities.