#my name is asher lev

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[hermitthrush]

Art is order. But order is not necessarily just, kind, or beautiful. Order may be arbitrary, harsh, and cruel. Art has nothing to do with morality... The artist makes art not to save humankind but to save himself.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1991) | Chapter 1. “Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art”. Maximum Asher Lev.

[normavasquez]

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether or not there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. ― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

[linusjf]

Chaim Potok: Troubling work

“Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I’m working on it. ” —Chaim Potok.

[musings-and-fandoms]

I HIGHLY recommend yall read My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

[sopranoentravesti]

Alright, jumblr and gentiles…

If you’ve read his work, please let me know which books in the tags

[gayfrasier]

i also bought 2 chaim potok books today. I COULDNT HELP MYSELF.

[idolysa]

†⃨⃰‧̍̊ ◟ ͜ ͜ ͜ ◞　@rwuffles Inspired SNPTs｡ ♡

🍪 、System Names ； The love-driven Pups, Valentines’s demise, Sweet hearts, Hounds of Love, Puppy Love collective, Street Mutts, Adorable Villains, Maidish puppies, The sweetest mutts, Kindness’ Doggy/Doggies, Stray Cuties, Devilish ‘n Adorable, Sweet Saviors, Baby Lambs, Sacrificial Puppies, Cutest little Doggy/Doggies, (The) Eldritch Frankenpups, Demonic sweethearts, Oceanic pups.

🐶 、Names ； 貴 (quý), 娟 (quyên), 慧 (huệ), 紅 (hồng), 志 (chí), 安 (an), 嬌 (kiều), 光 (quang), 艷 or 琰 (diễm), 緣 (duyên), 麗 (lệ), 愛 (ái), 真 (chân), 瑾 (cẩn), 恭 (cung), 嘉 (gia), 好 (hảo), 侯 (hậu), Huyên, 康 (khang), 謙 (khiêm), 敬 (kính), 亮 (lượng), 日 (nhật), 寧 (ninh), 昌 (xương), 王 (vương), 偉 (vĩ), 慧 (tuệ), Lãng, Loi, Ngoan, Nhạc.

These names are Vietnamese and are sourced from behindthename.com, please tell me if there are any mistakes.

🐾 、More Names, but Exclusive to bửu’s use ； Amitai, Ammiel, Armon, Asher, Azrael, Baruch, Dror, El/Eli, Elazar, Elihu, Elior, Elishua, Habakkuk, Hallel, Ira, Ishmerai, Jaasiel, Jadon, Yafe, Mehamem, Nathaniel, Lev, Liron, Eitan.

These are Hebrew names from my own Culture, do not use these if you aren’t Jewish. Xuân has exclusive Permission from me to use These.

🦴 、More Names, but I Pulled them out My Ass ； Pupangel, Sweetmilk, Pupysia, Pupdoll, Sweetener, Sacrifysa, Bitez, Kyutie, Wolfymp, Oceanari, Loserpup, Sweetooth, Mupup, Dogmu, Murian, Mumin, Sharum, Divimu, Lovimu, Mulentine.

🐑 、Pronouns ； H♡/H♡m, H☆/H☆m, He/Heart, Heart/Heartbeat, Ki/Kind, Ki/Kiss, Lo/Love, Pu/Puppy, Mu/Mutt, Wu/Wuff, Ar/Arff, Swe/Sweet, Beau/Beauty, La/Lamb, Cu/Cute, Kyu/Kyute, Dem/Demise, Ocea/Ocean, Sea/Sea’s, Aqu/Aqua, Shar/Shark, Dea/Dear, Cha/Charm, Exci/Excite, Wag/Wag’s, He/Hero, Sacri/Sacrificial, Swo/Swoon, Lo/Loser, Boy/Boyfie, Pat/Pats, Paw/Paw’s, Oup/Ouppy, Li/Little, Ange/Angel, Ble/Bless, Gi/Gift.

💌 、Titles ； The Heartbeat of My Heart, The Genius sweet tooth, Prn who’s Tail Wags Excitedly/Happily, The Sweet-toothed Hero, My Beautiful puppyboy, Prn’s sacrificial Demise, The Oceanic mutt, Prn who’s just the Sweetest, The oh-so Charming Boy/Pup/Hero, Prn who has Swooned (Prn’s Villain), The kind-hearted Hero, Prn’s beyond-adorable Obliviousness/Excitement, The cutest Mutt, Prn who’s full of Love, The Prettiest Boy ☆.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Do you have any favorite books written by jews that you think are really cool/worth reccomending?

Just a few of my favourite off the top of my head, in no particular order:

"Up Up and Oy Vey" - by Simcha Weinstein. Non-fiction.

"Wrestling with God and Man"- by Rabbi Steven Greenberg. Non-fiction.

"The Red Tent"- by Anita Diamant. Biblical fiction.

"The Chosen"- by Chaim Potok. Novel.

"My Name is Asher Lev"- by Chaim Potok. Novel.

"The Secret Chord"- by Geraldine Brooks. Biblical fiction.

"Where the Wild Things Are"- by Maurice Sendak. Children's book. Holds a special place in my heart because my Grandmama used to read it to me all the time as a kid and she would do different voices for the different characters and it always makes me think of her.

"Man's Search for Meaning"- by Viktor Frankl. Memoir.

"The Fixer"- by Bernard Malamud. Novel.

"Ecclesiastes"- by King Solomon. Book in the Tanakh.

[lowkeysleepdeprived]

HAHA! (TW? Abuse mentioned.)

hello sillies! Before I tell you about my OC’s I need to tell you, please don’t hate on me or them, I worked hard on their backstories and designs (may see those in another post). Today I’ll show you two out of four of ‘The Trauma Quartet’ (Working on the name)! Let’s-a-go!

Asher “Ash” Warren-Grey:

-Chaotic

-Gae

-Blue hair

-17 piercings

-Pale

-6’2” (I know. Tall. 🥲)

-Strong-ish

-Likes:

Praise, meat, candy, human interaction, fire or just warmth, his friends, cats and dogs, playing his bass, music, action, gore and watching movies

-Dislikes

Needles, dark rooms, water, bullying, responsibility, women (He’s scared of them, he would never admit it.), silence and the dark

(Backstory drop? Maybe.)

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Lev Vyschlav

-Stern-ish (He’ soft but not too soft, y’know??)

-Bi

-Brown hair

-Scar over his right eye (Abuse)

-5’7”

-Scrawny

-Likes:

Sweater vests, snow, stuffed animals (Anything he can hug), hugs, comfort, romance movies, blankets and his (COUGH dead COUGH) mother.

-Dislikes:

Sharp stuff, human interaction, his father, loud noises, yelling, balloons, blood, mouth noises, his accent, his household, presentations and books with less than two hundred pages.

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That’s it for today! Thank you to my friends for listening to me yap about these guys! See you soon, sillies!

[librarycards]

hello ! i’m looking for books/media that talk about being an artist in terms of being part of one’s identity and was wondering if you had any recommendations… i’ve been struggling how to word what i’m specifically looking for so idk if this’ll make sense! if u even have places to look or some search terms i could use it’d be much appreciated!

basically like . creators talking about using art as self expression/reflection, how being a creator informs how one moves in the world, capitalism’s effect on how creators view themselves, exploring art & madness… broad but if you think of anything related i’d love to check it out :) thank you!!!

yes, I do have some!

Here are some books on the relationship between one's art (writing, film, documentary, visual arts, etc.) and (often Mad) life - i'm not delineating between fiction and nf here because most are a mix:

Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

Poupeh Missaghi, trans(re)lating house one

Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats.

Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev

Eileen Myles, Inferno

Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

Johanna Hedva, Minerva A Miscarriage of the Brain

Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran

T Fleischmann, Time is the Thing A Body Moves Through

I curated a folio of Mad creativity / craft in 2021:

Part One

Part Two

And I recently wrote a quasi-craft/bodymind essay, which you can read here.

And here are a two important-to-me craft essays I happen to have bookmarked that feel relevant:

Daydreaming With Leslie Jamison

Brain Fog: An Essay

Hope this helps!

[cruelsister-moved2]

my goodreads hi ignore that its insane its an old account but i only started using it again in november</3 

[potokguy]

Would you guys believe me if I told you LMM almost made a musical out of the Chaim Potok novel My Name Is Asher Lev instead of Hamilton.

[chicago-geniza]

Fake Thesis, have posted most of this before, redux refresher because I need to catch up with advisor.

Gotta talk to my advisor she's going to get a migraine when I tell her about the chapter where I quote that French art critic synthesizing Bergsonian metaphysics and Jung via Haeckel to say Soutine's use of color and form is violent & maps onto the Jewish psyche & how Stefania says in the 50s this Biblical literalist rather than allegorical or suggestive application of Jungian archetype and "symbolika form i kolorów" in aesthetic theory is the psychoanalytic equivalent of bioessentialism, & then how My Name is Asher Lev includes that little rhyme Asher gets taunted with by his schoolmates about Soutine painting in "colors and ultramarine," & about the bright colors and bold forms bespeaking something insidiously sinful, secular, inherently UN-Jewish and therefore suspicious! (There's part of another chapter on the ENORMOUS popularity of Chaim Potok during the 70s Ashkenazi cultural revival in the US, and his books are actually in dialogue with a long tradition of prewar European art criticism that continued into emigration.)

[musings-and-fandoms]

What books have you read that left a profound feeling with you?

The Kite Runner

My Name is Asher Lev

1984

Of Mice and Men

Flowers For Algernon (I know this is technically a short story but gd)

I Have Lived A Thousand Lives

Chinese Cinderella

There’s another book about the Holocaust that I read in 8th grade that I LOVED but I can’t remember the name of it. I just know that a family had to hide in some hay because the nazis were looking for them? Also the girl became blind after being saved from a camp? Does anyone know what book I’m talking about???