“…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.”

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Books by Chaim Potok

The Chosen

1997

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My Name is Asher Lev

2001

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In the beginning

1975

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I am the clay

1992

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The gates of November

1996

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