Heart of a Wife The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman

by Rosenbaum, Marcus D.; Apte, Helen Jacobus

• ISBN13: 9780842027458
• ISBN10: 0842027459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi	(6)
Marcus D. Rosenbaum
Who's Who	xvii	(2)
Note on Editing	xix
Chapter 1 newlywed Bliss, newlywed Optimism (1909-1911) Essays	1	(42)
Day Apte	7	(22)
Race and Responsibility	29	(9)
The 1910 Cigar Strike	38	(5)
Chapter 2 Hard Times among the Flat Dwellers (1911-1913) Essays	43	(30)
Childbirth: A Matter of Life and Death--and Duty	58	(4)
Jewish in the South: "In Dixie Land I'll Take My Stand"	62	(11)
Chapter 3 At "Home," at War, the Roaring Twenties-and Alice (1913-1925) Essays	73	(30)
A Hospital Delivery	75	(22)
Reading and Reality: A Life from the Pages of Many Books	97	(6)
Photographs	103	(14)
Chapter 4 Pioneering in Miami (1925-1929)	117	(16)
Chapter 5 Like Not Eating Ham (1930-1934) Essays	133	(28)
"My Constant Physical Weakness and Low Vitality"	140	(9)
Cermak and the Dastardly Zangara: Some Questions and Answers	149	(12)
Chapter 6 A War to Hate, a Grandson to Love (1934-1946)	161	(20)
Epilogue	181	(2)
Marcus D. Rosenbaum
Selected Bibliography	183	(2)
Appendix A: Excerpts from The Sexual Life	185	(8)
Appendix B: Books I Have Read	193	(16)
Appendix C: Some Medical Detective Work: A Roundtable Discussion	209	(8)
Appendix D: The Truth about Grandma	217