caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date genre article_title name occupation
potok at the miami book fair international of 1985 23 july 2002 merion , pennsylvania , u.s. herman harold potok buffalo , new york , u.s. 200px united states 17 february 1929 literary fiction chaim potok
 chaim potok novelist , rabbi
chaim potok

chaim potok -lrb- february 17 , 1929 -- july 23 , 2002 -rrb- was an american jewish author and rabbi .
potok is most famous for his first book `` the chosen '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , which was listed on `` the new york times ' '' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies .
