Proper noun
A male given name from Hebrew.
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I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.
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Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.