My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394461371 ISBN 13: 9780394461373

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1972

The novelist records the anguish and triumps of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else

Review:

A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius. --The New York Times Book Review
Memorable. . . . Profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art. --The Wall Street Journal
Such a feeling of freshness, of something brand-new. . . . Attention-holding and ultimately moving. --The New York Times
Engrossing and illuminating. --Miami Herald"

-A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius.- --The New York Times Book Review
-Memorable. . . . Profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art.---The Wall Street Journal
-Such a feeling of freshness, of something brand-new. . . . Attention-holding and ultimately moving.- --The New York Times
-Engrossing and illuminating.- --Miami Herald

"A novel of finely articulated tragic power. . . . Little short of a work of genius." --The New York Times Book Review

"Memorable. . . . Profound in its vision of humanity, of religion, and of art."--The Wall Street Journal

"Such a feeling of freshness, of something brand-new. . . . Attention-holding and ultimately moving." --The New York Times

"Engrossing and illuminating." --Miami Herald

About the Author:

Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok's first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name is Asher Lev, and Wanderings, a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.