Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year.'THE DETROIT NEWSTwenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist...

In Potok's first novel, Danny Saunders must reconcile his rigidly repressive Hasidic heritage with his thirst for secular knowledge, and with his friendship with Reuven Malter, a liberal Jew. As always, Potok's primary concern is the ...