Chozen or Frozen: Abraham in God's Shadow

By Percy Zelnick

If born in the mid to late 1940s and the 1950s, the conversation amongst Jews was clear. At bar and bat mitzvahs, it was the Holocaust, Israel's survival as a David versus Goliath story, antisemitism, the need to be educated, and whether one was Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. God was assumed. In the 1960s, you had to add Sandy Kofax.

Today, many of the symbols are confusing and contradictory. The Holocaust is fading into history, and old enemies and new hatreds collide. Israel itself is branded with accusations once unimaginable. In all this uncomfortable dialogue, what of God?

This book began as a letter to my grandson on the eve of his bar mitzvah. It sets aside politics and faces one deep issue: Where is the Jewish God in all of this? For today's young Jew stepping into adulthood, Chozen or Frozen is an invitation to ask and to address that question.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G256HBXZ
• ISBN13: 9798264033063
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"