{"id":1285,"date":"2021-01-17T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2023-04-15T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:12:27","slug":"unfinished-business-im-quoted-in-an-article-on-jewish-cemetery-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/unfinished-business-im-quoted-in-an-article-on-jewish-cemetery-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"“Unfinished Business” — I’m quoted in an article on Jewish cemetery preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me documenting in the Jewish cemetery in Szydlowiec, Poland, in 1994<\/p><\/div>\n

B’nai B’rith magazine quotes me in a lengthy and unusually comprehensive article that summarizes initiatives to preserve, protect, and restore Jewish cemeteries in Europe.<\/p>\n

Written by Linda Topping Streitfeld, the article is called Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe’s Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

She quotes me (and many friends and colleagues):<\/p>\n

Author and scholar Ruth Ellen Gruber runs the website Jewish Heritage Europe, with deep resources on Jewish monuments and heritage sites. She has documented the resurgence of interest in Jewish culture and history over three decades. After the fall of the Soviet Union and communism in Eastern Europe, she said, \u201cPeople wanted to fill in the blank spaces, and Jewish heritage was one of them.\u201d
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