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My Name Is Asher Lev
 

My Name Is Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

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... (read more)

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Books I have Read But Do not Own 16 books / 1 members / 0 posts This group is for me.
Priest Lake Book Club 22 books / 4 members / 1 posts The once yearly book club of the fabulous summer women of Priest Lake, ID!
ChickLits 4 books / 6 members / 30 posts Nuthin' more than a small group of good-lookin' women chit chatting about literature.
Jewish- All About Us 118 books / 87 members / 550 posts welcome- this is about Judaica- life, traditions, holidays, the jewish people and of course Israel.
it is also about our belief- from the Torah to the Tanakh to Kabbalah.
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SB Book Club 16 books / 3 members / 2 posts
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SI-FAN 102 books / 49 members / 855 posts The Library closed its doors to the public. The members wandered off down the aisles in search of marvellous tales. And dust began to settle...a spider spun a web of delicious decadence. The Librarian stamped the immortal letters on a return "Once in never out".

In the dim shade the spectre of Poe appeared, a trailing hand casting eternity in the dust on well scratched tables, and a sob split the silence...followed by the "Hush!" of solitude.
A hand, scaled and sublime, rises from the watery depths, wiping away tears of yearning, mingling with the salt of bitter tides...oh the dreaming - the dreaming!
Enters the explorer, his hand trails the eternal dust, and posits an opinion, but his opinion flounders on the concourse of nothingness - for paradoxical is the truth when to be seen it has to be hidden, and to be truly alive is to die.
Say little and do much.
Jews Who Love Books 19 books / 16 members / 8 posts Are you Jewish? Do you love books? Then you're in the right place! My mother has run the library in our shul for many years. Because of this, I find myself constantly on the lookout for Jewish books to recommend to her. In particular fiction with a Jewish spin. I've created this group for fellow Jews to get together and recommend books to each other. They don't have to be Jewish but I'd love to see some recommendations for fiction with some aspect of Judaism (or just plain Jews) thrown in! Fiction, non-fiction, GOOD books about Judaism, or just plain good books, let the posting begin!
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