Jewish First Wife, Divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins - Hardcover

Jewish First Wife, Divorced collects the correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, and his Jewish first wife, Ethel Gross. These letters-flirtatious and fond, quietly argumentative and terse-reveal the significant influence of Progressivism on Harry Hopkins's political ideology and also the unique challenges for a professionally ambitious Jewish immigrant woman living in the early twentieth century.

Allison Giffen teaches American Literature at Western Washington University. June Hopkins is associate editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University at Mount Vernon College and the author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer (1999). June Hopkins is the granddaughter, and Allison Giffen the great-granddaughter, of Harry Hopkins and Ethel Gross.