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Ruth Ellen Gruber

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Ruth Ellen Gruber is an award-winning American writer, editor and photographer who has long been based on Europe. She has chronicled European Jewish issues for more than twenty years and works on cultural topics including an ongoing project called "Sturm, Twang and Sauerkraut Cowboys" documenting how Europeans embrace the mythology of the American Wild West.

A former correspondent for United Press International, she has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, JTA, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Hadassah Magazine, Moment, the New Leader, the London Independent and many other publications. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute ...more

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New Publication -- Jewish Cemeteries and Tourism

A visitor takes a picture in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw, Poland, long adminstered as a museum of funerary art

Last year I was commissioned by the ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) to write a report on “Jewish Cemeteries and Sustainable Heritage Tourism.”

This has now been published as part of an online handbook on Jewish cemeteries and sustainable tourism.

In my report I exami

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	National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir by Amalie R. Rothschild, Ruth Ellen Gruber (Goodreads Author), Mickey Hart (Foreword) 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler by Ruth Ellen Gruber (Goodreads Author), Arno Pařík, Leo Pavlát 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters From Europe 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upon The Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Central and Eastern Europe 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ochrona dziedzictwa żydowskiego w Polsce / Preserving Jewish Heritage in Poland by Ruth Ellen Gruber (Goodreads Author), Piotr Kadlčík, Monika Krawczyk liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Filling the Jewish space in Europe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier

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