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![]() | My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) (The first book in the Asher Lev series) A novel 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 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
December 2000 : Library Binding
| Title: My Name Is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-613-67570-3 / 978-0-613-67570-3 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1999 : Library Binding
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-8085-9863-5 / 978-0-8085-9863-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1989 : Hardback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc Availability: Amazon More details... |
October 1972 : Hardback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-434-59602-7 / 978-0-434-59602-7 (UK edition) Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1972 : Hardback
| Title: My Name Is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-394-46137-1 / 978-0-394-46137-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 2009 : Paperback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev (Penguin Modern Classics) Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-14-119056-6 / 978-0-14-119056-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2003 : Paperback
| Title: My Name Is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 1-4000-3104-4 / 978-1-4000-3104-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Anchor Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2000 : Paperback
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August 1996 : Paperback
| Title: My Name Is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-449-91168-3 / 978-0-449-91168-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Fawcett Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 1990 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-449-20714-5 / 978-0-449-20714-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Fawcett Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1985 : Paperback
| Title: MY NAME IS ASHER LEV Author(s): Chaim Potok Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon More details... |
September 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
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1983 : Paperback
| Title: My Name Is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
1981 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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January 1975 : Paperback
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April 1974 : Paperback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Chaim Potok ISBN: 0-14-003642-3 / 978-0-14-003642-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1973 : Paperback
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April 1973 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: My Name is Asher Lev Author(s): Potok Chaim ISBN: 0-449-20406-5 / 978-0-449-20406-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Fawcett Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1972 : Mass Market Paperback
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Other Editions
July 2009 : Kindle edition
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2003 : Unknown
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2000 : Unknown
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2000 : Unknown
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January 1991 : Unknown
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1972 : Unknown
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