Seen and Unseen

Character Study: Henry Bibby Waller

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Anthem became a Waller via marriage. Her maiden name supposedly was Bloom, but that name was adopted as her mother, Emme, her mother, and her husband entered the U.S. in the early 1930s. They attempted to shed any identity of their former selves. They no longer practiced Judaism, which in the Jim Crow South would have been …