Other Things Being EqualWayne State University Press, 1 мар. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 280 Widely regarded as a literary genius in her day, the Jewish American author Emma Wolf (1865-1932) wrote vivid stories that penetrated the struggles of women and people of faith, particularly Jews, at the turn of the twentieth century. This reissue of the 1916 revised edition of one of her most popular novels, Other Things Being Equal, first published in 1892, introduces Wolf to a new generation of readers, immersing them in an interfaith love story set in her native San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The novel's protagonist, Ruth Levice, a young intellectual from an upper-class Jewish family, meets Dr. Herbert Kemp, a Unitarian, and falls in love. The novel's force lies in its unwillingness to adhere to ideological stands. A woman need not give up marriage and home to be strong, independent, and unconventional; a Jew does not have to be orthodox to remain close to her heritage and her faith. |
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... Jewish pioneers of [Contra Costa] county,“ died suddenly when Emma was thin teen, and it seems no coincidence, as editor of the American Jewess Rosa Sonneschein noted, that it was then that Wolf began writing: “Her literary genius ...
... Jewish pioneers of [Contra Costa] county,“ died suddenly when Emma was thin teen, and it seems no coincidence, as editor of the American Jewess Rosa Sonneschein noted, that it was then that Wolf began writing: “Her literary genius ...
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... Jewish ideals? Why not choose the easier way and be like all the rest? The struggle was too hard, too bitter. Emma Wolf was undergoing much the same inner conflict. It meant real suffering to both of us. The spiritual growing pains of ...
... Jewish ideals? Why not choose the easier way and be like all the rest? The struggle was too hard, too bitter. Emma Wolf was undergoing much the same inner conflict. It meant real suffering to both of us. The spiritual growing pains of ...
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... Jewish women's clubs. Even though these clubwomen embraced writers sanctioned by English professors, they extended the terms of literature to include women with whom they could identify.8 All that is known of Wolf's involvement in the ...
... Jewish women's clubs. Even though these clubwomen embraced writers sanctioned by English professors, they extended the terms of literature to include women with whom they could identify.8 All that is known of Wolf's involvement in the ...
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... Jews were becom' ing less hostile; even though feminist groups remained Christiana centered.”13 In response, as Deborah Golumb observes, “even the organizers of the 1893 Congress of Jewish Women . , . 'identified themselves first as Jews ...
... Jews were becom' ing less hostile; even though feminist groups remained Christiana centered.”13 In response, as Deborah Golumb observes, “even the organizers of the 1893 Congress of Jewish Women . , . 'identified themselves first as Jews ...
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... Jewish Chronicle—“the work of Miss Emma Wolf stands out lumi' nous and arrestive”—and concludes with his belief that “those who care for sincerity, dignity and human insight in literature will appreciate her work and look forward with ...
... Jewish Chronicle—“the work of Miss Emma Wolf stands out lumi' nous and arrestive”—and concludes with his belief that “those who care for sincerity, dignity and human insight in literature will appreciate her work and look forward with ...
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