Video interviews with Ruth -- click Here
New book, “Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere)” -- See News
Ruth wins journalism award -- see News
Ruth Ellen Gruber is an American writer, photographer, broadcaster, and independent scholar living in Europe. For 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 (2007), and Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere) (2008).
She is also working on "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 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEH summer stipend grant.
Click on the links above to learn more about her and her work or to purchase one of her books.
“Sauerkraut Cowboy” by Don Jensen, who gave permission to post the song.