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The Gift of Asher Lev

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The Gift of Asher Lev Information
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The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. It is a sequel to Potok's novel My Name is Asher Lev...


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Publishers Weekly
The Gift of Asher Lev. (book reviews)
03/16/1990: 233 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 paintings...
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The Washington Post
Lev's Middle-Aged Musings
04/30/1990: 916 words, approx. 3 pages
THE GIFT OF ASHER LEVBy Chaim Potok Knopf. 370 pp. $19.95 With the publication in 1967 of "The Chosen," Chaim Potok staked out the community of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn as his literary domain, and since then it has been indisputably his. Its...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Brian Morton
894 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Morton presents a favorable assessment of The Gift of Asher Lev which, according to the critic, "heralds a new sophistication in Potok's art."
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Critical Review by Nikki Stiller
855 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Stiller finds shortcomings in The Gift of Asher Lev, particularly the novel's "sanitized" characters who lack development.
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Critical Review by Andy Solomon
782 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Solomon finds weaknesses in The Gift of Asher Lev, but notes Potok's "knowledgeable insights to share about art."


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