My name is Asher Lev

My Name is Asher Lev  is a novel by the Jewish-American writer and Rabbi Chaim Potok from 1972. The book was in 1974 in the Dutch translated by Richard Nadeau. ==The story[ Edit] == The Jewish baby boy Asher Lev grows as an artist on in the Hasidic-Jewish community of Brooklyn (area in New York City). Asher should all his life fighting against the views of his community, especially from his father. The community sees his artistic gift as something of the goj (the Gentiles) and a gift of satan.

As Asher grows up he becomes more and more of his community removed, because he is more with signs deals than with the Judaism which is not good falls within the community. Still want to Asher in his life so he not renounce Judaism as an adult artist dresses as an Orthodox Jew.

In the main passage of the book describes the two paintings that Asher Potok crucifixion of Jesus with his mother who is suffering as a result of the choice they have to make between Asher and his father does not accept that Asher as an artist because he paints naked people. The first painting shows the mother for the window, as always in front of the window in her life was when she waited on someone with the feeling that something bad was going to happen with that person. The second painting shows the mother tied to the curtain and the bars of the window, Asher and his father look at her in. this painting shows the choice they have to make between Asher and his father and how she suffers under the relationship that Asher and his father have.

After his parents have seen these paintings is Asher no longer welcome to his parents and his community.