My Name is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok

My Name is Asher Lev: Setting 1 key example

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Setting
Explanation and Analysis:

My Name is Asher Lev begins in the 1950s and stretches through the 1960s. Asher belongs to a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn called the Ladover Hasidic community, modeled after the real-life Chabad Lubavitch community in Crown Heights.