An interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber, an American-born journalist and author who curates a website on Jewish Heritage sites in Europe.
Ruth Ellen Gruber is also the author of what is considered to be the definitive travel guide on Jewish heritage sites in Eastern Europe, as well as other books on related topics.
Meet Ruth Ellen Gruber in Part 1 one of the two-part interview. Learn about her work as a foreign correspondent in Europe during the late Cold War era, including an arrest on trumped-up charges of espionage in communist Poland. Ruth also discussed the passion and intense curiosity behind her books and ongoing research into her East European Jewish roots.
Full transcript of this interview, including photos, can be found here.
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