Hadassah Magazine runs two articles by me about Venice — one on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Venice Ghetto, and one on general sight-seeing tips for the Lagoon City.
Venice, 500 Years of the Ghetto
By Ruth Ellen Gruber, August 2016
Venice university professor Shaul Bassi stops beneath an elegant marble plaque affixed to an inner wall of the Jewish community building just off the Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, the
I took part in a symposium Jan. 10 at the Center for Jewish History in New York that celebrated the publication of a special double issue of the journal East European Jewish Affairs that was devoted to new Jewish museums in the 21st century.
Post-Communist Eastern Europe is experiencing a museum boom as it explores new definitions of national identities not possible under communism. This has generated a wholesale revival of interest in Jewish culture and institutions on the part of non-Jews, paradoxically, in the near absence of Jewish populations. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow and Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw are prime examples of this trend, but there are many others.
I have an article in the journal called “Reportage: Beyond Prague
My article for JTA previewing Pope Francis’s visit to the Rome synagogue January 17.
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
January 15, 2016
(JTA)
Me in front of the abandoned synagogue in Hostice, CZ
The New York Jewish Week runs a (rather blush-worthy!) article by travel writer Hilary Danailova about me and my Jewish heritage work, including the Jewish Heritage Europe web site.
Here’s my recent article for JTA on how commemoration and mass tourism collide at Auschwitz.
The Jewish Quarterly publishes my review of the book Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
June 22, 2015
The extraordinary images reprinted
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Lee Bidgood has written an engaging essay in Ethnomusicology Review about collaborating with Shara Lange on the filming of Banjo Romantika, the documentary about Czech bluegrass music that I helped on and in which I appear as a “talking head.” He writes about the practical nuts-and-bolts of filming as well as his changing role as scholar and participant.
When Shara and I set out to film in the Czech Republic, my lingering sense of a scholarly ideal led me to impose a research-design structure to our slate of scheduled interviews and visits to performance events.
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I’m about to leave Charleston after a wonderful semester as the Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies.
Here’s my JTA story about the new kosher vegetarian vegan dining hall that’s under construction.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (JTA)
Drayton Hall “big house”
I wrote this piece for the web site of the Drayton Hall plantation outside of Charleston. It grew out of a session with descendants of both the enslaved people and slave-owners who lived there. I touch on parallels between presenting and interpreting Jewish history and heritage in post-Holocaust Europe and presenting and interpreting African American history and heritage in the Lowcountry.
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
April 28, 2015
More than 20 years ago I wrote a book called Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today. The title referred to the mezuzah
The main synagogue in Rome has been heavily guarded since 1982
In the wake of terror attacks on Jews (and others) in Paris and Copenhagen, I was asked
