Editing Chaim Potok (section)

==Legacy==
Potok has had a considerable influence on Jewish American authors.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Potok.html |title=Chaim Potok | format = biography | publisher=Jewish virtual library |date= July 23, 2002 | access-date = 2010-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gradesaver.com/author/chaim-potok |title=Biography of Chaim Potok &#124; List of Works, Study Guides & Essays |publisher=Grade Saver | access-date=2010-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | publisher = Class zone | title = Novel guide | contribution = Potok | url = http://www.classzone.com/novelguide/authors/potok.cfm}}{{dead link | date =October 2010}}</ref><ref>Great American Writers;Twentieth Century</ref> His work was significant for discussing the conflict between the traditional aspects of Jewish thought and culture and modernity to a wider, non-Jewish culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2002/07/24/archive/obituary-chaim-potok-dead-at-age-of-73-was-literary-pioneer-and-scholar|title=Obituary Chaim Potok Dead at Age of 73, Was Literary Pioneer and Scholar|date=2002-07-24|website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=2017-01-24}}</ref>  He taught a highly regarded graduate seminar on Postmodernism at the University of Pennsylvania from 1993 through 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0103/potok.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030415200456/http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0103/potok.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2003 |title=Pushing the 'frontiers of thought' |first=DS Neil |last=van Leeuwen |access-date=2012-10-15 }}</ref>

He bequeathed his papers to the University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Citation |department=Arts, Briefly |first=Julie |last=Bloom |title=Papers of Chaim Potok To Go to Penn |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 18, 2010 |page=C2}}</ref> The university houses a collection of Potok correspondence, writings, lectures, sermons, article clippings, memorabilia and fan mail. One of his admirers was [[Elie Wiesel]], who wrote to Potok saying he had read all his books "with fervor and friendship".<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1798 | title = Penn Libraries Receive Chaim Potok Papers | publisher = U Penn | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120806004952/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1798 | archive-date = August 6, 2012 | df = mdy-all }}</ref>