Ruth Gruber

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Ruth Gruber


Born
in Brooklyn, New York
September 30, 1911

Died
November 17, 2016

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Ruth Gruber was an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, she became the youngest PhD in the world and went on to author nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award–winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America.

Average rating: 4.3 · 2,515 ratings · 299 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
Raquela; A Woman of Israel

4.39 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1978 — 30 editions
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Haven: The Dramatic Story o...

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4.21 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 1966 — 31 editions
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Ahead of Time: My Early Yea...

4.36 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Witness: One of the Great C...

4.18 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Inside of Time: My Journey ...

4.49 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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Exodus 1947: The Ship That ...

4.42 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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Virginia Woolf: The Will to...

3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Rescue: The Exodus of the E...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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Collected Memoirs: Ahead of...

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Felisa Rincon De Gautier: T...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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“Mama wept openly. “If I don’t die now,” she cried, “there is no death.”
Ruth Gruber, Raquela: A Woman of Israel

“How does one comfort a young woman whose body must hunger for her husband? How does one help her mourn? How does one comfort the wives and mothers and children of dead soldiers?”
Ruth Gruber, Raquela: A Woman of Israel

“Only you would think of Sholom Aleichem to make the people forget for a little while.”
Ruth Gruber, Raquela: A Woman of Israel

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