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      The Book of Lights

      by Chaim Potok
      Published
      Sep 1981
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      400
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      Gershon Loran, a quiet rabinical student, is troubled by the dark reality around him. He sees hope in the study of Kabbalah, the Jewish book of mysticism and visions, truth and light. But to Gershon's friend, Arthur, light means something else, the Atom bomb, his father helped create. Both men seek different a refuge in a foreign place, hoping for the same thing....

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      Sep 1982 Fawcett ISBN 0449245691
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      May 1982 Thorndike Press ISBN 0896213587
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