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My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok

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Since its original publication in 1972, this stirring, luminously rendered novel that lets us into a little-known and less understood world has been recognized as a modern classic.

Its protagonist is Asher Lev, a boy raised in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, who at an early age discovers a compulsive need to draw and paint the world around him. As he grows up, Asher's gift will become increasingly evident to others even as it places him at odds with his parents and teachers. For a Jew is supposed to serve the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe, while an artist is responsible only to his imagination. In depicting Asher's struggle to reconcile these two identities, My Name Is Asher Lev presents a heartbreaking and exultant vision of what it means to be an artist.

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Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.

Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.

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Andrea Cumbo, May 6, 2008 (view all comments by Andrea Cumbo)

This is the book that let me know I was an artist. The longing that Asher feels for his painting is that pinprick of tenacity I feel in my spirit about writing, when I let myself feel it and don't deaden it with my own or other people's expectations of me. Asher's life is every artist's life, and this book gave me the courage to live my own life.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781400031047
Author:
Potok, Chaim
Publisher:
Libri
Author:
Potok, Chaim
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Artists
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Jewish families
Subject:
Crown Heights
Subject:
Lev, Asher
Edition Description:
1st Anchor Books ed.
Series Volume:
3
Publication Date:
March 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.14x5.22x.81 in. .63 lbs.
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