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Heart of a Wife
Apte, Helen Jacobus; Rosenbaum, Marcus D.
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Description for Heart of a Wife
Hardback. This text reveals Helen Jacobus Apte's emotions and personal faith while facing life's joys, sorrows and contradictions at the start of this century. She ponders her feelings about religion, her native South and patriotism, and tells of events local, national and international that affected her. Num Pages: 222 pages, photographs, family tree, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 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, ... Read more
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 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780842027458
SKU
V9780842027458
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Reviews for Heart of a Wife
Intriguing. Fascinating. Helen Jacobus Apte provides us with a sensual, moving record of what it wa slike to be a Southern Jewish woman in the first half of the twentieth century.
Alfred Uhry, author of Driving Miss Daisy and The Last Night of Ballyhoo A sizzling portrait of a Southern Jewish woman: self-educated, nurtured on novels, poetry, and the ... Read more
Alfred Uhry, author of Driving Miss Daisy and The Last Night of Ballyhoo A sizzling portrait of a Southern Jewish woman: self-educated, nurtured on novels, poetry, and the ... Read more