Ochrona dziedzictwa żydowskiego w Polsce / Preserving Jewish Heritage in Poland

by Ruth Ellen Gruber, Piotr Kadlčík, Monika Krawczyk

A publication marking the 10th anniversary of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. Introduction by Piotr Kadlcik, Chairman of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland; History of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Monika Krawczyk; Poland Jewish Heritage / Ruth Ellen Gruber; Jewish Heritage in Present-Day Past, Present and Future / Malgorzata Omilanowska; Protecting Jewish Monuments in The Activities of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland / Weronika Litwin; Preserving Jewish Heritage in Photographs, pp 50-99 [Rymanow; Zamosc; Krasnik; Przysucha; Sejny; Lancut; Orla; Mszczonow; Lezajsk; Radom; Radoszyce; Myslenice; Szczebrzeszyn; Przemysl]

99 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Ruth Ellen Gruber is an award-winning American writer, editor and photographer who has long been based on Europe. She has chronicled European Jewish issues for more than twenty years and works on cultural topics including an ongoing project called "Sturm, Twang and Sauerkraut Cowboys" documenting how Europeans embrace the mythology of the American Wild West.

A former correspondent for United Press International, she has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, JTA, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Hadassah Magazine, Moment, the New Leader, the London Independent and many other publications. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and others.

She coined the term "Virtually Jewish" to describe the way the so-called "Jewish space" in Europe is often filled by non-Jews: klezmer music, culture festivals, museums, tourism, and kitsch as well as serious and sensitive study and involvement.

Her books include National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, (2007), Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere) (2008), Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe (2002), and Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today (1994).