A Hasidic Jewish boy in Brooklyn grapples with his prodigious artistic talent clashing against his devout community's religious expectations.
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A Hasidic Jewish boy in Brooklyn grapples with his prodigious artistic talent clashing against his devout community's religious expectations.
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Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the ...
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Central conflict between Hasidic Jewish faith, rituals, and the Rebbe versus artistic vocation; blasphemy themes
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