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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Chaim Potok, the distinguished author and scholar whose works revealed Orthodox Jewish life to readers around the world, died on Tuesday at his home outside Philadelphia, officials at his synagogue said.

I read The Chosen for the first time when I was 11 and loved it. It had always been one of my mom's favorites, and it has remained one of my favorites, through several re-readings.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Aw bummer. I loved, and still own my old battered copy of, My Name is Asher Lev.

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

And another great is gone.

I'm getting tired of this mortality nonsense.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

At least, by leaving writings like those he left for us to read, he's a little bit less mortal perhaps than he would otherwise have been.

[gloriajn.livejournal.com]

I'd have to admit I'm not familiar with the writer or his works, and I never would've heard of him had it not been for LJ or the WOMBAT list.

Looks like a trip to the library is in order.