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My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, Chaïm Potok is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.Review“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

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Author

Chaim Potok, Chaïm Potok

Publisher

Anchor Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307422347

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

4.19 / 5 (381 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14