Katharine Woolley Mesopotamia" by Agatha Christie; Christie's second marriage in 1930 was to Max Mallowan, Sir Leonard Woolley's assistant at Ur. During World War II, her husband was involved with monitoring Nazi looting of museums, galleries and archives; she assisted with this work. She died of multiple sclerosis on 8 November 1945 in The Dorchester, where she and her husband had been living for several years. Katharine Woolley Katharine Woolley, née Menke (June 1888 – 8 November 1945) was a British archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley. She was
I Married a Jew I Married a Jew "I Married a Jew" is an essay by Gretchen Lewis published in "The Atlantic" in the January 1939 issue. It discusses her marriage to a Jewish man, referred to as Ben in the article. Herself being a Christian White American of German descent, she describes her marriage as an interracial marriage. The article also discusses the assimilation of Jews and other minorities into a white American mainstream culture. She writes that she frequently tries "to see things from the Nazis' point of view," to "the hurt confusion" of her Jewish husband. The essay became the subject