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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... questions the force these differences can apply, “other things being equal.” The extent of anti—Semitism in nineteenth'century America has been a controversial issue for historians, according to Hasia Diner's A Time of Gathering (1992) ...
... questions the force these differences can apply, “other things being equal.” The extent of anti—Semitism in nineteenth'century America has been a controversial issue for historians, according to Hasia Diner's A Time of Gathering (1992) ...
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... question of mar' riage. Complicating these themes is Wolf's perception of love, “the mantle of Elijah” (from her poem, “Eschscholtzia”)39-—its consuming intensity, its irrefutable force, its indiscriminate na' ture, its grace, and, most ...
... question of mar' riage. Complicating these themes is Wolf's perception of love, “the mantle of Elijah” (from her poem, “Eschscholtzia”)39-—its consuming intensity, its irrefutable force, its indiscriminate na' ture, its grace, and, most ...
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... question even a century later. Wolf 's courage as a writer comes from presenting these dilemmas openly and resolving them in a radical fashion relatively early in the history of American Judaism.41 Other Things Being Equal presents a ...
... question even a century later. Wolf 's courage as a writer comes from presenting these dilemmas openly and resolving them in a radical fashion relatively early in the history of American Judaism.41 Other Things Being Equal presents a ...
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... questions religious and social practices that artificially separate people who come to love each other despite their differences while, at the same time, she gives voice to what Kuzmack describes as “Jewish women [who] attempted to ...
... questions religious and social practices that artificially separate people who come to love each other despite their differences while, at the same time, she gives voice to what Kuzmack describes as “Jewish women [who] attempted to ...
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... question is a Jewess. Verily, the strongholds of custom and prejudice are crum— bling fast! (I 3) The novel was also favorably reviewed in the American Jewess and the Boston Post. Acknowledging that “no criticism would be complete ...
... question is a Jewess. Verily, the strongholds of custom and prejudice are crum— bling fast! (I 3) The novel was also favorably reviewed in the American Jewess and the Boston Post. Acknowledging that “no criticism would be complete ...
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