Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish WomanIn 1995, NPR editor and producer Marcus D. Rosenbaum met his grandmother-fifty years after her death. Rosenbaum and his family were attending to the bittersweet business of cleaning out the family home after his father died when, in an old closet, in a ziplock bag, his niece discovered a gateway to the early part of the century and into the life of Helen Jacobus Apte, a Southern Jewish woman living in post-Victorian era Florida and Georgia. The covers of his grandmother's diary were cracked and the pages were beginning to yellow, but there it was: almost forty years of passion, doubt, love, and life, penned in unflinching candor. Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman is the collection of Helen Apte's own diary and essays by her grandson, Marcus D. Rosenbaum, who edited the volume. This book reflects Apte's unorthodox, complex, and independent spirit during a very conservative time. Her shockingly frank opinions are offered on sex, marriage, children, religion, and her native South. Crafted in the heartwarming yet heart-wrenching style of Angela's Ashes and A Midwife's Tale, Heart of a Wife allows the reader a unique glimpse at significant events that gripped the world during the first half of the twentieth century: the Great Depression, the World Wars, and the sinking of the Titanic are but a few. |
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... November 1 , then $ 250. * We are looking for something larger but so far no success : I do all the work , which isn't much , but the cooking is hard for me , as I'm not used to it and I don't like it . It is strange to think Day is ...
... November 11 , 1930 Just listened to an Armistice Day Program from Washington - two min- utes of silence at 11 A.M. , prayer by Dr. Abram Simon , and address by President Hoover . All cry for peace , but the president said , “ How can we ...
... November 1 , 1901 The Mill on the Floss , by George Eliot ( Fiction ) Never have I felt such affinity for any character in fiction as I have with Maggie Tulliver . The characters in this book are not mere puppets , but one feels , loves ...
Contents
Hard Times among the flat Dwellers 19111913 | 43 |
Chapter3 At Home at War the Roaring Twentiesand Alice | 73 |
Photographs | 103 |
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