A review by tex2flo
As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg, Chaim Potok

3.0

Since I picked up the book at a thrift store, I had no idea what it was about and was merely tempted by the cover (sad, but true). Then, I put off reading it for about a year or more. Now, after spending the time digging in to Jewish life early in the ad dominum time frame, I am happy to had read this account of a rabbi who lost his faith and tried to use logic and reason to find it again. I had hoped to learn more about the lives of Jews in the time period, but instead was pushed to test reason and also to read some incredibly accurate historical fiction about the main character (who was a true person, evidently, from the Afterword) and about the suffering. It didn't give me, an agnostic, an reason to pick up faith after all these years, but it is an interesting journey to read about another's path to his own end.