My Name Is Asher Lev
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic from the National Book Award–nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy.
“A novel of finely articulated tragic power .... Little short of a…
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2 authors picked My Name Is Asher Lev as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book when I read it years ago, and I immediately started reading anything I could find by this compelling author.
Through his fine writing, I was able to live in the world of Asher, a young artist grappling with the conflict of being true to his work without defying the tenets of his religion.
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I loved Chaim Potok’s The Chosen when I watched the movie in high school, so I wanted to read his other works.
Potok expertly portrays an authentically Orthodox Jewish worldview with its historic challenge of how to preserve the next generation from the seductions of the secular world surrounding it. Asher Lev is a gifted artist, which puts him in conflict with his parents and community. A wise rabbi recognizes the difficulty of managing Asher and his family’s gifts, goals, and faith, and he intervenes at times of crisis.
Unlike traditional rabbinic tales in which everything turns out for the…
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