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My Name Is Asher Lev My Name is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok. It is based on a boy named Asher Lev and his years of growing up and his love for the arts. The book also focuses on what Asher loved the most which is arts and paintings. Asher was very talented in painting and drawing; he loved the arts deeply too. Art was a way of Asher expressing his feeling, whenever he felt unhappy he would just start drawing. Asher’s drawings would sometimes get him in trouble with his family, community and religion. Asher lived in a Jewish community, it was a Ladover Hasidic community. Everyone in Asher’s community was close like a big family and Rebbe was their leader who advised them. Asher lived with his father, Aryeh, and his mother, Rivkeh. Aryeh was an emissary of the community, so he was a very important man to the