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My Name Is Asher Lev

By Chaim Potok

By Chaim Potok

By Chaim Potok

By Chaim Potok

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Mar 11, 2003 | 384 Pages

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    About My Name Is Asher Lev

    “A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius.”—The New York Times Book Review 

    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.

    About My Name Is Asher Lev

    “A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius.”—The New York Times Book Review 

    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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    The Promise
    Old Men at Midnight
    In the Beginning
    The Gift of Asher Lev
    The Gates of November
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    About Chaim Potok

    Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also… More about Chaim Potok

    About Chaim Potok

    Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also… More about Chaim Potok

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 11, 2003 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400031047

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Jul 01, 2009 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780307422347

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    “A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “Memorable. . . . Profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art.”–The Wall Street Journal

    “Such a feeling of freshness, of something brand-new. . . . Attention-holding and ultimately moving.” –The New York Times

    “Engrossing and illuminating.” –Miami Herald

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