Chaim Potok, an ordained rabbi ... Potok explained that for the book’s artist protagonist, the Crucifixion has “no religious significance” but is “an aesthetic vessel,” a “form,” a ...

Chaim Potok, an ordained rabbi and best-selling novelist whose fiction often probed the dueling personal and spiritual demands of Jewish faith versus those of secular American society, died ...

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Chaim Potok is featured in Seven Books About Art for Holiday Chill, a piece from Daily Art Magazine in June 2020. OVERVIEW ARTWORKS AUCTION RESULTS ARTICLES ...

Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev is brought to life Off-Broadway. His daughter, collaborator and star reflect on the late author and rabbi's need to create.

View full size Roger Mastroianni A Manhattan artist (actor Tom Alan Robbins, left) takes teen painting prodigy Asher Lev (Noel Joseph Allain) under his wing in "My Name is Asher Lev" at the ...

The dictates of religion and the mysteries of art collide in Chaim Potok’s novel “My Name is Asher Lev,” a staged adaptation of which opens Oct. 22 in the Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre in ...

The Chaim Potok novel "My Name is Asher Lev" tells the story of a Jewish boy determined to pursue a life in the world of modern art despite the opposition of his parents and the New York City ...