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Chaim Potok, rabbi and critical scholar of Judaic texts, has demonstrated in his literary career that the American novel is indeed a viable genre for writing about Jewish theology, liturgy, history, and scholarship. He has brought to American fiction a f...

Chaim Potok, rabbi and critical scholar of Judaic texts, has demonstrated in his literary career that the American novel is indeed a viable genre for writing about Jewish theology, liturgy, history, and scholarship. He has brought to American fiction a f...

Chaim Potok "wrote of what he knew best, Jewish-Americans in the 20th century struggling with two contradictory yet valid points of view," according to Shirley Saad writing for the United Press International. In such popular and award-winning books as Th...

THE GIFT OF ASHER LEV In his first novel in five years, Potok brings back the Hasidic artist hero of My Name Is Asher Lev. Now living in France, Asher is deeply disturbed by the reviews of his latest show, which criticize his...

Jane Asher was born on 5 April 1946 in London. A film and television actress, she is also well-known for her books on cake- making. She first appeared as a child actress in Mandy (1952), and dated Paul McCartney for five years after interviewing...

The difficulties inherent in the creation of a fictional genius have undone this extremely interesting book [My Name Is Asher Lev], which is ironic since it brilliantly transcends the impediment of being yet another novel about a Jewish family in New York, by reason of its seriousness and doggedness for truth…. The prayers, greetings, customs and attitudes of Hasidic Jews toll through the book; the writer is on intimate, respectful, but his own terms with them, and they are naturally and objectively ...

Why is it no one seems able to write a convincing novel about the life work of a painter?… Chaim Potok, I'm afraid, is one more name to add to the list of failures. His dull, ponderous, humorless account of the rise of Asher Lev, Jewish artist extraordinary ["My Name Is Asher Lev"], cannot convince anyone who has held a brush loaded with oil paint and tried to make some meaningful strokes on a canvas, that this is what it's like.

Compares the challenges of religion in the books My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok, and Bless me Ultima, by Fudolfo Anaya. Describes how each text depicts the challenges down the journey through adolescence.