Like Potok's other novels, My Name Is Asher Lev deals with the conflict between differing cultural values. This time the conflict is between Judaism, and in particular, Hasidism, with its distrust for art, and the Western artistic tradition. The novel also deals with the conflict between a father and a son (who wishes to become an artist) and between.....
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