The Tree Of Here

Potok, Chaim

ISBN 10: 0679840109 / ISBN 13: 9780679840107

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993

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Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean except for some minor rippling to the front cover. "Moving is so hard! Jason has good friends and a school he really likes, but his father has been promoted, and the family is moving to Boston. Sheltered by the branches of the huge dogwood tree in the yard, Jason pours out his fears. Can it be that the tree answers back?" Regarding Chaim Potok: "After receiving a master's degree in English literature, Potok enlisted with the U. S. Army as a chaplain. He served in South Korea from 1955 to 1957. He described his time in South Korea as a transformative experience. Brought up to believe that the Jewish people were central to history and God's plans, he experienced a region where there were almost no Jews and no anti-Semitism, yet whose religious believers prayed with the same fervor that he saw in Orthodox synagogues at home. Upon his return, he joined the faculty of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and became the director of a Conservative Jewish summer camp affiliated with the Conservative movement, Camp Ramah. A year later he began his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and was appointed scholar-in-residence at Temple Har Zion in Philadelphia. In 1963, he spent a year in Israel, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on Solomon Maimon and began to write a novel.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tree Of Here
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679840109
• ISBN 13: 9780679840107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated by Tony Auth
• Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Jason is upset that he has to move for the third time in five years, but he gains comfort from his favorite tree and from the gift of a young tree that he can take with him to his new home