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I Speak about Jewish Heritage Europe in a Spectacular Venue in Florence
By Ruth Ellen Gruber (This post also appears on my En Route blog for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal) I had the pleasure and privilege Sunday of giving a presentation about the Jewish Heritage Europe...
View ArticleEn Route to Oxford
I’m in London, well, in Richmond, just off Richmond Park… en route to Oxford tomorrow, where I’ll be taking part in a conference at the Yarnton Manor Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies on The Place...
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Banjo Romantika is about to premiere!
Banjo Romanitka, the documentary about Czech bluegrass that I helped out on is about to launch! Produced and directed by Lee Bidgood and Shara K. Lange, it will have screenings in the Czech Republic in...
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I’m on Italian TV (very, very briefly)
By Ruth Ellen Gruber On Saturday, I attended a ceremony in the outrageously beautiful Umbrian hill town, Polino, where the local authorities named a newly built piazza in honor of Giovanni Palatucci,...
View ArticleThe nights Lou Reed partied at my house
Lou Reed’s death has made me think back — yipes — more than 40 years to the two times I met him: when he partied at my parents’ house twice after shows in Philadelphia….. I wrote about it, of...
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Start of the olive harvest
Just one thought at the start of the annual olive harvest: I love the little tug and the almost inaudible sound — phut! — when I pull the olives off the branch. This year, I seem to have double the...
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My articles on the opening of the POLIN museum in Warsaw
“The forest” — entry into the core exhibit The long-awaited core exhibition of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened Oct. 28. I attended the gala opening events and also wrote a couple...
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Symposium: New Jewish Museums in 21st Century Europe
I took part in a symposium Jan. 10 at the Center for Jewish History in New York that celebrated the publication of a special double issue of the journal East European Jewish Affairs that was devoted...
View ArticleVideo of My talk on Jewish Heritage and Social Engagement
In June, I spoke at the big conference on Jewish Cultural Heritage held at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw — it was three days after my eye operation so I wasn’t 100 percent, but here is the full talk.
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Me, defending the Latke….
I took part in the “Great Latke versus Hamentash” debate, held at the JCC in Krakow during the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. I defended — of course — the Latke. My opponent was an American-Israeli...
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