Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siecle California,
Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (1865-1932) uses a love story to
explore topics such as familial loyalty, the conflict between
American individualism and ethno-religious heritage, and
anti-Semitism in the United States. The introduction, co-authored
by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan, includes biographical
background on Wolf based on new research and explores key literary,
historical, and religious contexts for Heirs of Yesterday. It
incorporates background on the rise of Reform Judaism and the late
nineteenth-century Jewish community in San Francisco, while also
considering Wolf's relationship to the broader literary movement of
realism and to other writers of her time. As Cantalupo and
Harrison-Kahan demonstrate, the publication history and reception
of Heirs of Yesterday illuminate competing notions of Jewish
American identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Compared to
the familiar ghetto tales penned by Yiddish-speaking, Eastern
European immigrant writers, Heirs of Yesterday offers a very
different narrative about turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish life
in the United States. The novel's central characters, physician
Philip May and pianist Jean Willard, are not striving immigrants in
the process of learning English and becoming American. Instead,
they are native-born citizens who live in the middle-class
community of San Francisco's Pacific Heights, where they interact
socially and professionally with their gentile peers. Tailored for
students, scholars, and readers of women's studies, Jewish studies,
and American literature and history, this new edition of Heirs of
Yesterday highlights the art, historical value, and controversial
nature of Wolf's work.
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