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. Fox, Margalit (11 May 2006). "Ruth Gay, Author of Books About Jewish Life, Dies at 83". nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
2. “Biographical Note.” Guide to the Ruth Gay Collection 1980s-1993, 2002. Processed by Yakov Illich Sklar.