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.
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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Hardback Editions
March 2003 : Library Binding
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January 1999 : Hardback
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August 1991 : Library Binding
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1989 : Hardback
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October 1972 : Hardback
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March 1972 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
November 2009 : Paperback
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March 2003 : Paperback
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2000 : Paperback
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August 1996 : Paperback
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June 1994 : Paperback
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1990 : Paperback
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1985 : Paperback
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September 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
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September 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
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June 1983 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1981 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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January 1975 : Paperback
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1974 : Mass Market Paperback
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April 1973 : Paperback
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