Asher Lev

The story of Usher Lev is a picture of his talent for a Jewish boy who came from Brooklyn. He introduced himself as a young man suffering from an inner conflict between his religious development and his extraordinary gift from God. He could not explain why he felt that he had to draw a picture, and he hurt all the people he loved and did not like insulting everything he believed.

Potok's 1985 novel Davita's Harp is his only book featuring women. In 1990, he announced a gift from Usher Lev, and the sequel of my name was Usher Lev. Potok wrote many dramas including his father's sin and abyss. In 1992, Potok completed another novel, and I was clay. And I talked about the brave fight of the family torn apart in the war. After his 1993 young adult literature "The Tree Here" there were two people, "The Current Sky" (1995) and "Zebra and Other Stories" (1998). Chaim Potok 's parents hinder him from writing and reading subjects other than Jews. He spent a lot of time reading the secular novels of public libraries. Potok lists James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, and S. Y. Agnon as major literary influences. Many of his novels were born in the city environment of New York where he grew up. Although not a Hashidic word, Potok was brought up in an extremely orthodox home.

In 1972, Potok 's third novel again showed a secluded Orthodox church. My name is Asher Lev, following a mentally injured parent and a Hassidism teenage boy; Asher's father frequently travels and after his brother dies, his mother I suffered an unrest spell. Asher anti-social is a talented painter. His art is the only thing to comfort him. Usher 's father was skeptical of his son' s talent, especially after discovering female nude research and Usher 's own sketch of the cross. When they consulted the leader of the Hasidic leader Ruddber Rebbe, he also encouraged active and Usher. Rebbe paired him with a non-observer Jewish Jacob Kahn who sympathized for his denomination. Jacob refined the skill of the boy and Usher made us feel that he had other possibilities - he did not have to be in eternity in Hashid. Although he thought about breaking religion, he was still faithful to love for art and love for God.