There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. (Chaim Potok)

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Chaim Potok

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