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Ruth Ellen Gruber

Ruth Ellen Gruber writes frequently about Jewish cultural and heritage issues and coordinates the web site Jewish Heritage Europe. Her Twitter feed is @ruthellengruber.

Berlin Exhibit Explores Ritual Circumcision
Jewish Museum shows custom in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian contexts
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Umbrian Olive Harvest Needs Hanukkah Miracle
Climate change imperils a Jewish tradition
byRuth Ellen Gruber
The Night I Spent in Jail in Hitler’s Hometown
A writer returns to the Austrian town 25 years after a strange übernachtung
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Eric Clapton at Auschwitz
The singer headlined the fifth annual Life Festival in Oswiecim, Poland
byRuth Ellen Gruber
The Jewish Poet Who Slept in Hitler’s Bedroom
A 1988 family trip to Poland offered Jerome Rothenberg rich material for art
byRuth Ellen Gruber
70 Years Later, Memory of Nazi Massacre Still Divides Some Italians—and Unites Others
The victims of the Ardeatine Caves murders included partisans, Jews, and a Sardinian folk star named Gavino De Lunas
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Remembering Murdered Researcher Jiři Fiedler
Jewish heritage archivist and his wife found dead in their Prague apartment
byRuth Ellen Gruber
When Pete Seeger Brought Bluegrass—and His Banjo—to Czechoslovakia in 1964
The late folk icon’s performance was the first ever to feature the instrument
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Plan To Open Another Holocaust Museum in Budapest Faces Criticism—From Jews
Many worry it will be window-dressing for politicians who want to be seen remembering the Shoah but ignore today’s anti-Semitism
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Heym on the Range
Bonanza creator David Dortort, who died in September, drew inspiration from his family’s immigrant story
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Pure and Complicated
An exhibition devoted to mikvahs taps into Austria’s troubled past—and complex present
byRuth Ellen Gruber
My Hanukkah Gift
A writer’s reflections on her olive grove and a holiday ritual
byRuth Ellen Gruber
Stick and Stones
Representations of women in Romania’s Jewish cemeteries
byRuth Ellen Gruber

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