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  • Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

    The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    The powerful story of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of the Second World WarIn 1943, nearly one thousand European refugees from eighteen different countries set out on a journey for asylum in the United States. Accompanying them was Ruth Gruber, who with the backing of the United States government, was made a simulated General to escort the refugees on ... Leer más

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  • Raquela

    A Woman of Israel

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized ... Leer más

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  • Inside of Time

    My Journey from Alaska to Israel

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    The intrepid journalist and Holocaust refugee champion "gives a commonplace appeal to the momentous events with her ingenuous storytelling" ( Kirkus Reviews).Drawing from hundreds of notebooks accumulated throughout her career, Gruber's breathtaking memoir spans some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, covering the years 1941 to 1952. She details her eighteen months spent ... Leer más

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  • Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent

    My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    The early life and trailblazing career of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable female journalistsIn this fascinating memoir, Ruth Gruber recalls her first twenty-five years, from her youth in Brooklyn to her astonishing academic accomplishments and groundbreaking journalistic career. She shares her experiences entering New York University at fifteen and just five years later becoming the ... Leer más

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  • Collected Memoirs

    Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and "fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle" ( The New York Times).Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived an extraordinary life as a foreign correspondent, photographer, humanitarian, and author. This collection is ... Leer más

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  • Virginia Woolf

    The Will to Create as a Woman

    de Ruth Gruber ...
    This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf's work and inspired a series of correspondences between the ... Leer más

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  • Witness

    One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story

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    With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.In Witness, Gruber writes about what she saw and shows us, through her haunting and ... Leer más

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