Ruth Gruber (1911–2016)
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Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 30, 1911. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University, a master's degree in German at the University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate in German literature at the University of Cologne. She became a photojournalist and author who visa mer documented Joseph Stalin's gulags, life in Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, and the plight of Jewish refugees intercepted by the British on the passage of the Exodus to Palestine in 1947. She wrote 19 books during her lifetime, mostly based on her own experiences, including Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947, I Went to the Soviet Arctic, and Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story. Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America was made into a two-part CBS mini-series in 2001. She died on November 17, 2016 at the age of 105. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- 1911-09-30
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- 2016-11-17
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- USA
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- Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Cologne (Ph.D.)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA)
New York University
Bushwick High School - Yrken
- journalist
federal official
photographer
autobiographer
humanitarian
biographer (visa alla 8)
feminist
foreign correspondent - Relationer
- Ickes, Harold (manager)
Michaels, David-2 (child)
Sobol, Dava (niece) - Organisationer
- New York Herald Tribune
New York Post
Hadassah Magazine
American Society of Journalists and Authors
U.S. Department of the Interior - Priser och utmärkelser
- Jewish Book Council Lifetime Achievement Award
Norman Mailer Prize (2010) - Kort biografi
- Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. She graduated from New York University as a teenager and won a fellowship to the University of Wisconsin, where she received a master's degree in German and English literature. In 1931, she received another fellowship to study German philosophy, modern English literature, and art history at the University of Cologne. At age 20, she earned a doctoral degree with a dissertation on Virginia Woolf and was said to be the youngest PhD in the world. While in Germany, she also attended Nazi Party rallies and heard the ranting speeches against Americans and against Jews. Returning home during the Great Depression, Dr. Gruber became a pioneering journalist, writing about women under fascism and communism, and was the first American foreign correspondent allowed to fly through Siberia to the Soviet Arctic. During World War II, she turned her attention to the crisis of Jewish refugees: as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior in the Roosevelt Administration, she escorted 1,000 refugees from Italy to the USA and reported their stories. Her book about the experience, Haven: The Unknown Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees, was published in 1983. After the war, Dr. Gruber left government and returned to journalism. She gave the world an eyewitness account of how Holocaust survivors and other Jews were forcibly removed by the British from the refugee ship Exodus 1947, refused entry to Palestine, and deportated back to Germany. In 1951, she married Philip H. Michaels, a community leader in the Bronx, with whom she had two children. Dr. Gruber published more than 16 books and received many awards for her writing and humanitarian acts, including the Na'amat Golda Meir Human Rights Award and awards from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance. These included Raquela: A Woman of Israel, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1979; and Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews (1987). The first volume of her autobiography, Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent, was published in 1991, In 2016, an exhibit of her photographs entitled Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist went on display at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland.
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I'm simplifying Gruber's own brisk almost-oblivious narration. But the feats speak for themselves. Gruber is clearly aware of the unconventional path she was cutting at the time but her determination - however retrospective it might be - made things seem inevitable. I also really enjoyed that beyond her intellectual and professional achievements, Gruber seemed to put more effort in the book in describing the emotional impacts of her schooltime crushes and relationships. She can do it all!
The book ends after her second visit to the Soviet Arctic, pre-WWII, covering only up to Gruber's mid-twenties. Having read a little about her later accomplishments, it seems safe to say that Gruber was not just a child-wonder but truly a woman with incredible drive and passion. Modern memoirs sometimes come with criticism of, the author is only 25! how could their life possibly fill a book! Well, Ruth Gruber's is how.… (mer)