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Barbara Cantalupo 'Introducing Author Emma Wolf (1865-1932), Jewish-American Author
Sun, Jan 19
|Eastport Arts Center
Sunday Afternoons at the Arts Center, an Eastport winter tradition, features diverse, interactive and casual weekly presentations. January events, including this program, are held at Eastport Port Authority, 141 Water Street, Eastport, during floor refinishing at EAC.
Time & Location
Jan 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Eastport Arts Center, 36 Washington St, Eastport, ME 04631, USA
About the event
The first three events in Eastport Arts Center’s annual winter Sunday series will be held instead at the Eastport Port Authority building, while work is underway on restoring EAC’s floors.
On January 19 at 3 pm, English professor and scholar Barbara Cantalupo will present on author Emma Wolf, who wrote turn-of-the-century novels about interfaith marriage and the aftereffects of ‘passing.’
Widely regarded in her day (1865-1932), Wolf is considered by some to be the ‘mother of Jewish American fiction. Her vivid stories penetrated the struggles of women and people of faith, particularly Jews, as evidenced by Other Things Being Equal (1982), and Heirs of Yesterday (1900). She published three other novels and numerous short stories, many of which were published in the New York magazine, The Smart Set, a precursor to The New Yorker.
When Cantalupo was given the task of writing an essay for a book on Jewish-American writers in…