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| Name: |
Chaim Potok | | Birth Date: |
February 17, 1929 | | Death Date: |
July 23, 2002 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Place of Death: |
Merion, Pennsylvania, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer |
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Biography of Chaim Potok
8421 words, approx. 28.1 pages
 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...
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Biography of Chaim Potok
7727 words, approx. 25.8 pages
 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...
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Biography of Chaim Potok
4899 words, approx. 16.3 pages
 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...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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My Name Is Asher Lev Information
1,123 words, approx. 4 pages
 My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) is a novel by Chaim Potok about a Hasidic Jewish boy from Brooklyn, Asher Lev, who is a child artist prodigy. Lev struggles with his family and the people of his Hasidic sect for the right and freedom to use his great gifts...



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 Publishers Weekly
The Gift of Asher Lev. (book reviews)
03/16/1990: 235 words, approx. 1 pages 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...
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 The Independent - London
My Secret Life Jane Asher, actress & cook
09/01/2007: 524 words, approx. 2 pages 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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
246 words, approx. 1 pages
 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 ...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Barson
225 words, approx. 1 pages
 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.
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Comparison of the Aspects of Religion
1,714 words, approx. 6 pages
 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.


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