Ruth Levice, the cherished daughter of a cultured Jewish family in 1890s San Francisco, meets Dr. Herbert Kemp, a Gentile physician attending her mother. As their attachment deepens, Ruth must weigh her love against her father’s devotion and her people’s traditions, and the novel treats the question of interfaith marriage with unusual seriousness and warmth.
An 1892 novel of Jewish family life in California by a San Francisco writer, a rare early American treatment of intermarriage. Download the free EPUB.