![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Asher's parents and the rest of the Ladover community worry because the aging Ladover Rebbe has no children and has appointed no successor. But one of his cousins bitterly resents the art collection and hampers Asher's efforts to use it for charity in his uncle's name. Asher is dazzled and makes some tentative efforts to reconcile the Ladover Hasidic community to modern art-for example, by sketching a portrait of his uncle for his grieving father and by teaching a lesson in art appreciation at the school where his daughter has temporarily enrolled. Soon after the funeral, he learns that his uncle had secretly been collecting art for many years and has amassed a valuable collection, of which Asher is to be the trustee. When his beloved Uncle Yitzchok dies, Asher is abruptly summoned back to Brooklyn. The brilliant, schismatic Hasidic painter Asher Lev is now a middle-aged man, residing with his wife and children in the south of France. It is a sequel to Potok's novel My Name Is Asher Lev (1972). ![]() The Gift of Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, published in 1990. ![]()
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