My Name is Asher Lev Resources

This website has a great biography of Chaim Potok, plus just about everything else you'd ever want to know about Jewish religion, history, and culture.

If you really want to geek out about art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has an amazing timeline of art throughout the ages. The European art timeline is the one that's most relevant to Asher's life and world.

"My Name Is Asher Lev" is an off-broadway play based on the book. The play was written by playwright Aaron Posner. The adaptation is pretty loyal to the book, too.

Incredibly enough, My Name Is Asher Lev has a sequel: it's called The Gift of Asher Lev and it's about Asher as a middle aged man.

Because we all know that essay can wait.

Here's the movie trailer for The Chosen, a film based on another book by Chaim Potok about the friendship between two Jewish boys (one very religious, one not so much), in the 1940s.

Here's an interview Chaim Potok gave in the dark ages (i.e. 1985) about his life, his writing, and his novel, Davita's Harp, which is about discrimination against women within the Jewish community.

Autographs on autographs.

This snazzy-lookin' place is in Florence, Italy.

How many faces can you find?

Michelangelo's masterpiece in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.

Feast your eyes on this.