![]() ![]() When it becomes obvious Asher cannot assume a preordained role, the Rebbe gives him a cautious blessing and Asher studies painting with Jacob Kahn, an elderly artist, while Asher's father deepens the silence which divides them. But Asher, while haunted by his mythic ancestor calling him to follow his father, is also driven by his own compulsion to draw and paint. ![]() He helps to establish schools, consolidate communities in Europe and to rescue Jews from Soviet oppression. ![]() Asher's father exists, as did his fathers before him, within the rituals of prayer and sacrifice and does "good deeds" as the Brooklyn-based emissary of a Landovian Rebbe. This features the agonizing young years of Asher Lev caught between the imperatives of his Hasid family's dynastic destiny and the forbidden visions of the goyische world of art. ![]()
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