Ruth Ellen Gruber Email & Phone Number

Ruth Ellen Gruber is an award-winning American writer. An accomplished public speaker, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Littauer Foundation and others. In September 2011 she was awarded one of the highest honors Poland grants to foreign citizens -- the Knights Cross of the Order of Merit. In 2015 she was the Arnold Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston (SC). She was Scholar in Residence at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute in January-February 2011, and is currently a Research Associate at the HBI. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Autry National Center/Institute for the Study of the American West in 2004. She coordinates the web site www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu.Ruth has chronicled European Jewish issues for more than 30 years and works on cultural topics including an ongoing project documenting how Europeans embrace the mythology of the American Wild West. A former correspondent in Eastern Europe for United Press International and former senior Europe correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic agency JTA, she has authored several books, contributed to many other books, and written for public and mass media as well as scholarly journals.

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