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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: Preserving Remains of Death Camps
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Preserving Remains of Death Camps. Auschwitz's Future Secure, Preservationists Worry About Forgotten Nazi Death Camps. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. October 12, 2011. ROME (JTA) - Auschwitz, the most notorious camp in the Nazi killing machine, may soon claim success in its campaign to preserve the legacy of the Holocaust. Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka were the t...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: RUTHLESS COSMOPOLITAN: Czech Jews Remember Havel
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. RUTHLESS COSMOPOLITAN: Czech Jews Remember Havel. RUTHLESS COSMOPOLITAN: At Hanukkah, Czech Jews Marvel at Blessings of Havel's Revolution. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. December 22, 2011. Why at this sad moment of mourning did I feel that the Shehecheyanu was fitting? Joined by his family and a few guests, Ambassador Norman Eisen lit the first candle ahead of h...
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New Beginnings, Old Concerns
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Henry Gruber Archaeologist, Activist, Barbecue Enthusiast. IG/twitter: @hllgruber hllgruber@gmail.com Santa Monica, CA. New Beginnings, Old Concerns. It's fitting that the rebirth of my blogging. Has occurred around the beginning of baseball season. Something about springtime awakens a sense of rebirth, and in secular America today there is no spring festival of rebirth like the Opening Day of the MLB Season (even if it was in Australia). What is this space a rebirth of? Right now, my current interests a...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: Poland's Southeast Corner
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Monday, August 13, 2012. Travel piece for Centropa.org, Summer 2011. Poland's Far Southeast Corner. By Ruth Ellen Gruber (all pics by Ruth Ellen Gruber). When I look at a map, I always feel that the most remote part of Poland is that little triangle of territory in the far southeast of the country that forms a wedge between Ukraine and Slovakia. Several of these site form part o...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: Jewish Life in Poland and Hungary
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Wednesday, July 4, 2012. Jewish Life in Poland and Hungary. Is Jewish Life in Poland and Hungary Sustainable? By Ruth Ellen Gruber. September 20, 2011. BUDAPEST, Hungary (JTA) - It's not easy to decipher the complicated trajectory of Jewish life in post-communist Europe. The reports, Boyd said, "illustrate that both perspectives are correct: While Jewish life has undoubtedly bee...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: September 2011
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Friday, September 23, 2011. I Receive a High Honor from Poland. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. Given my history with Poland, going back more than 30 years, it is quite an honor! As my old friend and colleague Doug Stanglin reported in USA Today,. At Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, 1983. What a difference a few years and the fall of the Berlin Wall makes. Thursday, the Polish government was...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: December 2010
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Monday, December 13, 2010. My latest story on JTA is a news analysis of Silvio Berlusconi and the complicated political situation. From a Jewish angle. With Berlusconi tottering, Israel-Italy ties appear safe. By Ruth Ellen Gruber · December 7, 2010. Berlusconi, 74, has a checkered record when it comes to Jewish issues. On the one hand, he’s been a strong supporter of ...Israel'...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: Staying in Krakow
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Thursday, July 12, 2012. By Ruth Ellen Gruber. I've just been to Krakow for the last few days of the annual Jewish Culture Festival - the best party around. This year I did a couple of lectures to groups who were attending (and observing) the festival. It led to some reminiscing with friends who - like me - have been going to the Festival since the early 1990s. Operated by Wojte...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: August 2012
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Monday, August 13, 2012. Travel piece for Centropa.org, Summer 2011. Poland's Far Southeast Corner. By Ruth Ellen Gruber (all pics by Ruth Ellen Gruber). When I look at a map, I always feel that the most remote part of Poland is that little triangle of territory in the far southeast of the country that forms a wedge between Ukraine and Slovakia. Several of these site form part o...
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Ruthless Cosmopolitan: May 2011
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A compendium of articles by Ruth Ellen Gruber, along with occasional insights and adventures from an American writer in Europe. Friday, May 20, 2011. Ruthless Cosmopolitian - At a Jewish time of reflection, thoughts on a Pope and Catholicism. My latest Ruthless Cosmopolitan column for JTA. Was a reflection on Catholic-Jewish relations in the wake of Pope John Paul II's beatification. Things have changed, even since I was a kid. By Ruth Ellen Gruber, May 9, 2011. I don't recall actually shedding tears whe...