Calendar

Oct
23
Thu
Filming in Venice
Oct 23 – Oct 24 all-day

I’m being filmed as part of a documentary on the ancient Jewish cemetery in Venice, Italy — accompanying the cemetery director/caretaker/historian Aldo Izzo on a guided tour of the site.

 

 

Dec
3
Wed
Lecture on Jewish museums in Europe under communism @ IMT (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Dec 3 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Dec
11
Thu
Jewish. Jewish! “Jewish” Jewish? New Definitions, New Authenticities in Jewish Europe @ Jewish Museum Berlin
Dec 11 @ 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm

 

presentation on a panel at the conference:

Jan
1
Thu
Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies @ College of Charleston
Jan 1 – May 15 all-day

For the Spring Semester 2015 (January-May) I have been named the Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

Feb
23
Thu
Jewish contribution to the urban development of European cities @ FUGA Architects Center Budapest
Feb 23 all-day

A one-day international conference organized by the Ovas! NGO that promotes preservation of buildings in downtown Budapest

Feb
28
Tue
Life after Life: Virtually Jewish 15 Years on @ Parkes Institute, Southampton University
Feb 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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Lecture by Ruth Ellen Gruber at the Parkes Institute, Southampton University, to mark 15 years since the publication of “Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe.”

 

Click here to see full details

 

 

 

Mar
6
Mon
The past and present of Jewish Heritage Travel @ Clarendon Institute
Mar 6 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm
1994 Documenting cemetery

Ruth documents the Jewish cemetery in Szydlowiec, Poland, in 1994

 

Ruth gives a David Patterson lecture for the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies on her more than a quarter century of following Jewish heritage and Jewish heritage travel developments

 

Apr
26
Wed
From Shtetl to City @ S.W. Ripley Center
Apr 26 @ 6:45 pm – 8:45 pm

 

I give a talk about Jewish heritage sites and travel, as part of the Smithsonian Associates program.

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Jul
27
Thu
Jewish Heritage Travel – 25 years on @ Ratusha restaurant
Jul 27 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Visitors in the Kupa synagogue, Krakow

I give a talk looking back at the evolution of Jewish heritage travel since the publication of my book “Jewish Heritage Travel”, as the closing event of the “Jewish days at the Ratusha” program.

 

Oct
16
Mon
Workshop @ Rashi House
Oct 16 all-day

Ruth take part in a workshop on Jewish heritage in Worms, Germany.