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Description

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... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “" A regular Chagall," my uncle said. I turned in my chair and looked up at him. "No," I said. "My name is Asher Lev."”

First Sentence

My name is Asher Lev, the Asher Lev, about whom you have read in newspapers and magazines, about whom you talk so much at our dinner affairs and cocktail parties, the notorious and legendary Lev of the Brooklyn Crucifixion.

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  1. Chaim Potok (Author)
 

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