Ruth Gay
Ruth Gay (née Slotkin; October 19, 1922 – May 9, 2006) was a Jewish writer who wrote about Jewish life and won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction for Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America (1996).[1]
Ruth Gay attended Queens College in 1943 and received a master's in library science from Columbia University in 1969. From 1948 to 1950 she was the editor of the JDC Review of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.[2]
She died in 2006.[1]
Publications
- Safe among the Germans liberated Jews after World War II (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002)
- Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997)
- The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992)
External links
- “Biographical Note.” Guide to the Ruth Gay Collection 1980s–1993, 2002. Processed by Yakov Illich Sklar.
References
- 1 2 Fox, Margalit (11 May 2006). "Ruth Gay, Author of Books About Jewish Life, Dies at 83". nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ↑ “Biographical Note.” Guide to the Ruth Gay Collection 1980s-1993, 2002. Processed by Yakov Illich Sklar.
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