Marcus D Rosenbaum, Helen Jacobus Apte

Heart of a Wife

The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman

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Produktbeschreibung

This new 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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In 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780842027465
• ISBN-10: 0842027467
• Artikelnr.: 21885853

Autorenporträt

By Marcus D. Rosenbaum and Helen Jacobus Apte

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Newlywed Bliss, Newlywed Optimism (1909
1911) Chapter 2 Hard Times among the Flat Dwellers (1911
1913) Chapter 3 At "Home," at War, the Roaring Twenties
and Alice (1913
1925) Chapter 4 Pioneering in Miami (1925
1929) Chapter 5 Like Not Eating Ham (1930
1946) Chapter 6 A War to Hate, a Grandson to Love (1934
1946)