哈依穆·波特克创作主题探析

On the Themes of Chsen Reflected in Chaim Potoks Words

哈依穆·波特克是当代美国“犹太味”最浓、最独特的作家。他以其独特的视角对当代美国犹太生活进行了切实探微。波特克的小说多以世俗世界中犹太人的宗教、历史和文化经历为题材，以皈依犹太神学和礼拜仪式的犹太人为原型人物，以犹太会堂、学校及虔诚的犹太家庭为背景，反映出宗教与社会、个人需求与集体信仰、传统与现代、父与子之间的冲突与矛盾。而在冲突与矛盾中表现出波特克对传统“强者-选民”伦理主题的复归。

A rabbi, a philosopher, an observant Jew, and a writer with a strong sense of Jewishness, Chaim Potok has begun a systematic exploration and a sequence of interwoven novels dealing with contemporary Jewish American life and Jewish-American cultural confrontation. In his creativity Potok presents the cultural conflict between orthodox and ultra orthodox Judaism-comprising Jewish theology, liturgy, history, and scholarship. Potok carefully explores the conflicts between religion and society, individual needs and community belief, tradition and modern, and father and son. What is revealed in the premise of Potok’s investigation of cultural confrontation between Jewishness and secular life is the theme of “chosen'.