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Name
  
Ruth Gay

Role
  
Writer

Spouse
  
Peter Gay (m. 1959–2006)


Died
  
May 9, 2006, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States

Awards
  
National Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction

Books
  
Safe Among the Germans, The Jews of Germany, Unfinished People, Das Undenkbare tun Jude, Geschichte der Juden in Deutsc

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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).

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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.

She died in 2006.

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)
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