Asher Lev Timeline and Summary

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• Asher is born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1943.
• As a child, Asher begins to show a talent for drawing. His mom encourages it but wishes he'd draw "prettier" things. His dad dislikes it.
• Asher's Uncle Yaakov dies, and Asher temporarily stops drawing.
• Asher enters yeshiva and starts drawing again—this time pictures of dead Josef Stalin (which would be a great band name).
• Asher's parents inform him that the entire family will be moving to Vienna, and Asher refuses to go.
• Asher's dad goes to Vienna alone—Asher feels guilty about splitting his parents up, but not for long.
• Asher gets in trouble in school for not paying attention to his lessons and drawing in his Chumash.
• The Rabbi realizes that Asher's got a really impressive talent and asks the artist Jacob Kahn to mentor him.
• Asher and Jacob Kahn get really close and sometimes spend the summers together at Jacob Kahn's place in Cape Cod. Asher learns a lot about painting and sculpture.
• Asher's mom joins his dad in Vienna. Asher moves in with his Uncle Yitzchok.
• Asher's has his first gallery show, and then his second. He quickly becomes a superstar prodigy in the art world.
• Asher's parents return home. Asher is really distant from his dad, who still disapproves of his art.
• Asher goes to Italy and Paris on his own. He paints Brooklyn Crucifixion I and II.
• Asher returns home and has a gallery show exhibiting Brooklyn Crucifixion I and II.
• Asher's parents see the paintings and disown him. The Rabbi casts him out of the Ladover community.