My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

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Potok, Chaim. Comments on My Name is Asher Lev http://www.lasierra.edu/~ballen/potok/Potok.unique.html#Asher

———. "A Subtle Effort to Deconstruct the Shtetl." New York Times Arts & Leisure Section. Sunday, October 23, 1994.

———. The Chosen New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.

———. The Gift of Asher Lev New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Note: This is the sequel to My Name is Asher Lev.

Walden, Daniel, ed. "The World of Chaim Potok." Studies in American Jewish Literature. Number 4. State University of New York Press, 1985.

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