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Divan And Asher Lev Essay

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Divan and Asher Lev There are many parallels when looking at Pearl Gluck and her journey to find the Divan and Asher Lev and his desire to pursue art. Some similarities are quite evident, such as both Asher Lev and Pearl Gluck grew up in Hasidic Communities in Brooklyn, New York. Other similarities are not so evident but become clear when looking deeper. Asher Lev and Pearl Gluck, both raised Hasidic, go against their core beliefs in order to pursue their desires, while still wanting to live up to the legacies of their ancestors, those that they learned to admire as children. In the documentary “Divan,” Pearl Gluck heads to Hungary in search of the Divan and information of her family’s Jewish history. Pearl was born into Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community, a community she …show more content…

Growing up Pearl always heard about her great-great-grandfather's mythical Divan, a couch cherished because of the generations of rebbes that had slept on it. Pearl soon became determined to bring this Divan back from Hungary to please her father, who was Hasidic, and did not approve of her life choices. Asher Lev from a very young age knew he had a gift for drawing. He would draw everything that filled his mind, and whatever he felt. It was a way for him to express his feelings and what he saw in the world around him. However he was raised in a Hasidic community by a very conservative Hasidic father who did not approve of his drawings. As Asher grew up his father would not allow him to draw, and for a while he listened. But Asher needed to express what he felt and saw in the world around him, so as time went on he started to disregard his father's orders. Overtime he drew more and more and eventually took his art to the next level, by going to a teacher and a studio. Soon Asher started to consider art as a religion. Both Asher and Pearl put their

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