Check out the rich resources on www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu -- an online clearing house for news and information on Jewish heritage that I coordinate as a project of the Rothschild Foundation Europe
I've made quite few public appearances over the past year -- and videos of some of them are posted online.
Take a look!
At the conference Jewish Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age, held in Venice October 23-25, 2017, there was an event celebrating 25 years year the first edition of my book Jewish Heritage Travel was published — and 15 years since my book Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe.
The event was a conversation between me and Shaul Bassi, of Ca’ Foscari University and Beit Venezia, looking back on my involvement in Jewish heritage over the past nearly 30 years.
Watch it here:
The Center for Urban History in Lviv has posted the full video of a lecture I presented in Lviv July 27, 2017 at the conclusion of the lecture series “Jewish Days in the City Hall: (Un)Displayed Past in East European Museums.”
As in the Venice conversation, in the talk I reflected on the changes that have taken place in Jewish heritage tourism since the publication of the first edition of my book “Jewish Heritage Travel” in 1992.
As the author of National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, I have roamed thousands of miles around Europe's historic Jewish heartland, bringing Jewish heritage to light for on-site explorers and armchair travelers alike. On this blog I will post photographs, links and personal experiences related to Jewish heritage sites and travel, particularly in the countries of east-central Europe.
Aside from clearly marked quotations, links and pictures, all material on this blog is copyright ⓒ Ruth Ellen Gruber
I'm an American writer and photographer who has researched and written widely on Jewish culture and heritage issues for more than three decades. I've written several books on the topic and manage the website www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu, a project of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe.
I also am working longterm on "Sturm, Twang and Sauerkraut Cowboys: Imaginary Wild Wests in Contemporary Europe," an exploration of the American West in the European imagination for which I won a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEH summer stipend grant. In 2015 I was the Arnold Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, SC. My other honors and awards include Poland's “Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit" and the Michael Hammer Tribute Research Award from the Hadassah Brandeis Institute (HBI).
I am available for writing and editing assignments, to give lectures and presentations, and to consult on travel and heritage issues. Please click HERE for further details.
Upcoming lectures/appearances/events (on Jewish and other topics)
June 30, 2018, 12:00 noon -- Latke versus Hamentashen debate, JCC Krakow (during the Jewish Culture Festival). Defending the Latke.
August 6, 2018, 13:30 -- Dark Tourism Meets Destination Culture: the Evolution of Jewish Heritage Travel, IAJGS Conference, Warsaw
August 7, 2018, 14:45 -- Using the New Jewish Heritage Europe Website. IAJGS Conference, Warsaw
September 5, 2018, 10:00 -- Then, Then, and Now: Reconsidering Marvin Lowenthal's 1933 Jewish Guidebook "A World Passed By". Urban Jewish Heritage Conference, Krakow.
November 18, 2018, 16:30 -- Museum Projects on Hungarian Jewish History (Chairing session). Association of European Jewish Museums annual conference, Budapest