My Name is Asher Lev

by

Chaim Potok

My Name is Asher Lev Symbols

Window

The living room window in the Lev family’s apartment symbolizes the pain and longing of physical, emotional, an ideological separation among family members. Aryeh prays before the window when his wife, Rivkeh, is ill…

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Crucifixion

Crucifixion represents the tension between religion and art for the novel’s characters, as it takes on two levels of meaning. On a religious and historical level, the crucifixion has offensive connotations of the historical persecution…

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