![]() ![]() But to his parents, who are strict Orthodox Jews, he's a puzzle, an embarrassment, and at times a threat. From the time he was old enough to hold a pencil, he's been drawing, sketching and painting, because artistry is part of his make-up. 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.Īsher is one of those kids who was clearly born with a wonderful gift. ![]() But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. ![]() ![]() 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.Īsher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. 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. ![]()
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