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Are Asher Lev Paintings Disrespectful To His Parents
1,559 wordster> Are Asher's paintings of the Cruxifixion an ultimate act of disrespect towards his parents? Asher Lev paints against the values of his family and community. He disregards Jewish traditions and observance by pursuing his passion for art. His individuality has him disobeying the Rebbe, the mashphia, his mythic ancestor as well as his parents. Asher does not intend for his artwork to be harmful, but that they convey truths and feelings. Yet, the Brooklyn Crucifixions cause shame for ...
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Asher Lev Chaim Potok
508 wordsChaim Potok, born Herman Harold Potok, was the son of Polish immigrants and was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home. He was born in February of 1929 in New York City, where he attended religious schools. However, as a young man he became fascinated by less restrictive Jewish doctrines, particularly the Conservative side of Judaism. He attended Yeshiva University and graduated summa cum laude in English literature in 1950 before moving on to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ...
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Reb Saunders Chaim Potok
1,625 wordsChaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American Jew America has been a country of immigrants since Europeans first settled it over five hundred years ago. America has always faced the problem of assimilation, a challenge faced by every country with a considerable immigrant population. Because immigrants founded America, her culture is a combination of the cultures of other countries. Should these immigrants isolate themselves from the main...
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Asher Lev Chaim Potok
2,672 wordsChaim Potok Chaim Potok, arguably the most powerful writer of modern Judaism, was born on February 17, 1929, in the Bronx of New York to Benjamin and Mollie Potok. At age 8, Chaim Potok showed talent in the realm of drawing and art. His father and teachers of the Talmud, a compilation of Jewish law, greatly discourage him from pursuing art. This was because it was considered nothing more than a waste at best and breaking the commandment? thou shalt not make any graven image? at the worst. Eventu...
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Chaim Potok Asher Lev
611 wordsChaim Potok Chaim Potok lives a very full life he has served his country, peoples, and religion very well and with great impact. First, to be discussed is his life birth through the present. He was born at a very early age on February 17, 1929, in New York, New York to Benjamin and Mollie Potok. The first university he went to was Yeshiva University where he graduated in 1950 with a B. A. , summa cum laude, in English Literature. He also went to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where h...
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Asher Lev Chaim Potok
412 wordsMy Name is Asher Lev by: Chaim Potok Synopsis: In this major novela wholly new departure for the author of The chosen and The Promise the reader becomes a galvanized witness to the development of genius, as Chaim Potok traces the making of a great contemporary painter from the time when an ordinary little Brooklyn boy responds to the first stirrings of a commanding talent to the triumphant exhibition that wins recognition for his art and marks his final, heartrending estrangement from the world ...
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