My Name is Asher Lev Characters

Asher Lev is the star of this production: tortured child artist who grows up to paint probably the most offensive and sacrilegious painting any Ladover Hasid has laid eyes on. Asher is introspectiv...

Aryeh Lev is Asher's dad: a scholar, world traveler, and hardcore traditionalist. He's the Rabbi's right-hand man, dispatched all over the world to build yeshivas and spread Jewish teachings. He is...

Rivkeh Lev is Asher's mother: kind, gentle, and torn between the desires of her son and her husband. She loves Asher and wants to foster his talent, but she's also dismayed by the fact that his tal...

Jacob Kahn is the temperamental genius sculptor whom the Rabbi hires to mentor Asher. He's best friends with Picasso (no big deal or anything), has survived a bunch of pogroms in Europe, and is reg...

Yudel Krinsky hasn't exactly had it easy. He's a Russian Jew who survived Stalin's reign of terror. He was captured during a factory revolt and spent several years in prison in Siberia before being...

Uncle Yitzchok is the kind of embarrassing uncle you cringe at but still love to have around. He is Aryeh's brother, and he owns a highly successful diamond business in Brooklyn. He is also one of...

There's only one thing Ann Schaeffer loves more than money, and that's art. She is Jacob Kahn's long-time art dealer and agent, and when he first introduces her to Asher, she's skeptical. After she...

Like Ashlee Simpson and Lana Del Rey, the Rabbi is someone the Levs love to hate. He's a very controversial figure in the lives of Asher and his family, to say the least. Asher is terrified of him...

Asher has a Harry Potter-Draco Malfoy relationship with his yeshiva classmates in that he's Harry and his classmates are pretty much all Draco. They tease and taunt him because he's got a gift that...