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When Rabbi Chaim Potok wrote the novel My Name Is Asher Lev in 1972, he was telling a story that was largely autobiographical. Like the Hasidic hero of his novel, Potok struggled with the conflict between artistic expression and his ultraconservative Jewish upbringing. Potok's famous painting,
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When Rabbi Chaim Potok wrote the novel My Name Is Asher Lev in 1972, he was telling a story that was largely autobiographical. Like the Hasidic hero of his novel, Potok struggled with the conflict between artistic expression and his ultraconservative Jewish upbringing. Potok's famous painting, Brooklyn Crucifixion, is described