Ruth Ellen Gruber will visit Penn State Harrisburg March 21 to discuss "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today." The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery, Library. Gruber’s exhibit, "Remnants and Renaissance: Photographs by Ruth Ellen Gruber of Europe’s Jewish Heartland" will be on display through May 1 in the college library’s Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room.
For more than two decades, the award-winning American writer, photographer, editor, and independent scholar has chronicled Jewish cultural developments and other contemporary European-Jewish issues. Her photographs have been exhibited in Italy and Hungary and have been published in the New York Times and other publications.
Gruber is the author of "Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture"; "Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today"; "National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe"; and "Letters from Europe (and Elsewhere)." She has served as United Press International’s chief correspondent in Warsaw and as a contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Globe.
The event and exhibit are free and open to the public. For information, contact 717-948-6715, hbgalumni@psu.edu or visit harrisburg.psu.edu/chjs. Penn State Harrisburg is located at 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Pa.