Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern a Southern Jewish Woman. Edited and with essays by her grandson, Marcus D. Rosenbaum.

Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., (1998). First Edition. Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), xvii + 222 pp. Fine. From lower cover: A sizzling portrait of a Southern Jewish woman: self-educated, nurtured on novels, poetry, and the classics, caught in a lifelong struggle between duty and desire. For forty years, Helen Jacobus Apte wrote in her diary from every compass point of the heart. Her rich inner life glistens through her grandson’s deft and subtle editing.