RUTH’S BLOGS     -- Jewish Heritage Travel blog (named one of the top 50

                                   Jewish blogs by the Guide to online schools!)

                            -- Sauerkraut Cowboys/Imaginary Wild West

                            -- (Candle)sticks on Stone

RUTH RECEIVES KNIGHT’S CROSS OF THE ORDER OF MERIT, ONE OF THE HIGHEST AWARDS THAT POLAND GRANTS TO FOREIGNERS, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Ruth Ellen Gruber is an award-winning American writer, photographer, editor and independent scholar living in Europe. For more than two decades she has chronicled Jewish cultural developments and other contemporary European Jewish issues.  She coined the term “Virtually Jewish” to describe the way the so-called “Jewish space” in Europe is often filled by non-Jews.

Her latest books are National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere), and Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe.

She is the Coordinator of the web site www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu --  a project of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. Her current projects also include "Sauerkraut Cowboys, Indian Dreams: Imaginary Wild Wests in Contemporary Europe," an exploration of the American frontier in the European imagination, for which she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEH summer stipend grant. Also: “(Candle)sticks on Stone: Representing the Woman in Jewish Tombstone Art.” She has had other grants and/or fellowships from the Littauer Foundation, the Autry National Center, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Ruth

       -- is a compelling public speaker.

         -- consults on tourist itineraries and heritage issues.

       -- writes and edits articles, books and reports.

Click on the links here and above to learn more about her and her work, to purchase one of her books, consult on travel or preservation, carry out writing or editing assignments, or book her to lecture or take part in a program.