![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The lure of intellectual and artistic self-emancipation put him at odds with his family, and the Orthodox faith itself, though, as a novelist, he wrote warmly of the possibility of an undistracted faith, simple and pure.īut such security was not his own experience, and the tension between the closed world of piety and the modern world, with its powerful intellectual resources - from Freudian psychoanalysis to the scientific criticism of texts - gave Potok a subject to which he returned again and again. As a teenager, he listened to The Lone Ranger on the radio, and read Joyce's Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, and the novels of Hemingway and Evelyn Waugh. He encountered New York in the 1940s, with its passion for baseball and ethnic politics, through secret acts, little betrayals. In other respects, however, his early years were spent in a community determined to keep the secular world at a distance. Potok grew up in a modern Orthodox form of Judaism - modern in the sense that men did not grow beards and were not expected to retain their earlocks. ![]()
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