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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... Levice, who falls in love with Dr. Herbert Kemp, the physician called in by Ruth's father to administer the rest cure to his wife, who has suffered a spell of hysteria. Ruth is an atypical upper~ middleeclass, young Jewish woman whose ...
... Levice, who falls in love with Dr. Herbert Kemp, the physician called in by Ruth's father to administer the rest cure to his wife, who has suffered a spell of hysteria. Ruth is an atypical upper~ middleeclass, young Jewish woman whose ...
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... Levice that his wife “is not a child,” even as Levice tries to protect her from accepting her own illness. Again, when Kemp turns over the responsibility of the daily administration of her mother's rest cure to Ruth, he affirms Ruth's ...
... Levice that his wife “is not a child,” even as Levice tries to protect her from accepting her own illness. Again, when Kemp turns over the responsibility of the daily administration of her mother's rest cure to Ruth, he affirms Ruth's ...
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... Levice has raised a daughter who can handle anxiety and worry, who has the intel' lectual strength to grapple with difficult and demanding prob' lems, and who has been taught the value of perseverance: “one of her earliest lessons was ...
... Levice has raised a daughter who can handle anxiety and worry, who has the intel' lectual strength to grapple with difficult and demanding prob' lems, and who has been taught the value of perseverance: “one of her earliest lessons was ...
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... Levice's first response is to hold to conventional wisdom and reject Ruth's request for his approval of her engagement to Kemp. On his deathbed, however, Levice overturns this decision and concludes that “character and circumstance are ...
... Levice's first response is to hold to conventional wisdom and reject Ruth's request for his approval of her engagement to Kemp. On his deathbed, however, Levice overturns this decision and concludes that “character and circumstance are ...
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