![]() After that trip, I started to read all I could find on the subject of daily life in the ghetto. The creations of women are transitory - meals cooked, clothes mended, clothes washed, clothes sold (for one of the few professions Jews were permitted at the time was trade in second hand clothing), children born, children birthed, and children raised. ![]() “Their accomplishments disappear as smoothly as a stone thrown in a pond. “Much of the history of women is written in water,” says Rich of the impetus to create a literary heroine based on the history of the Jews in Venice, after touring the Venice ghetto on holiday. The Midwife of Venice marks her debut as a novelist. She is married and has one daughter, three step-children, a German Shepherd, tropical fish and many oversexed parakeets. She currently divides her time between Vancouver, B.C. She has also been a student, waitress, nurses’ aide, hospital admitting clerk, and factory assembly line worker. ![]() ![]() Born in Buffalo, New York, Roberta Rich was until recently a lawyer practicing family law. ![]()
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