Changes to My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

mzlee edited the first sentence of My Name Is Asher Lev Monday, August 24 2009.

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.

mzlee edited the quotations of My Name Is Asher Lev Monday, August 24 2009.

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

Shelfari edited the description of My Name Is Asher Lev Saturday, August 1 2009.

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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