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My Name is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
Beautiful, beautiful book.
This tells the story of Asher Lev, an observant Hasidic jew in 1950s Brooklyn. Unlike everyone else in his community, Asher is an artist and this book is the story of how art leads Asher down a different path to that expected of him.
I had very limited knowledge of the lives of hasidic jews before reading this and so I needed to look up quite a few of the rituals, prayers and significant days to understand what was going on, but this was so beautifully written and so evocative of a misfit's state of mind that I was just swept into Asher's world.
This tells the story of Asher Lev, an observant Hasidic jew in 1950s Brooklyn. Unlike everyone else in his community, Asher is an artist and this book is the story of how art leads Asher down a different path to that expected of him.
I had very limited knowledge of the lives of hasidic jews before reading this and so I needed to look up quite a few of the rituals, prayers and significant days to understand what was going on, but this was so beautifully written and so evocative of a misfit's state of mind that I was just swept into Asher's world.