My Name Is Asher Lev My Name is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok. It is based on a boy named Asher Lev and his years of growing up and his love for the arts. ... Asher would get depressed and wouldn't want to go. ... Asher assured them that there wouldn't be. ... So Asher left and went to Paris. ...
Chaim Potok's Asher Lev is a book of how young Asher grows and develops into an artist. ... In the beginning, he immediately identifies and introduces himself as "an observant Jew So strong words are being generated: I am a traitor, and apostate, a self-hater, an inflictor of shame upon my family, my friends, my people- which gave me an initial idea that this man named Asher would have done something so outrageous that he would label himself as a traitor and accept it. ... Do you understand me, Asher?" ... However, when one breaks this conformity, like Asher Lev, the whole world scr...
"They say my paintings are a desecration of the name of God. ... Asher Lev expresses himself and his perception of life through his paintings. ... Asher tries to answer to the intense questioning of his Jewish relations, "I wanted to paint suffering, and there are no motifs in Jewish art that I could use as an instantly recognizable aesthetic vessel for the depiction of my mother's anguish during all the years my father travelled-(Potok 109). ... The Gift of Asher Lev begins in St. ... In The Gift of Asher Lev, Asher's upbringing creates the most tension in relation to his situati...
