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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... Tampa - Tuesday , February 22 , 1910 And he was " first in peace , first in war , and first in the hearts of his coun- trymen . " * What an ideal day to celebrate his birthday . The thermometer stands at 74 ° , a light balmy breeze is ...
... Tampa Bay Hotel , topped with shiny onion domes , which was then the center of Tampa's social life . * They could take a streetcar several miles along a shore of Tampa Bay to Ballast Point for a romantic evening on the huge pier . And ...
... Tampa , 1901-1913 . Cigars Manufactured ( x1,000 ) 300000 250000 200000 150000 100000 50000 0 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 Year Source : Tampa Historical Society When the workers returned to work in ...
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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