By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Just a note to advise that my photo exhibit, “Remnants and Renaissance: Photographs by Ruth Ellen Gruber of Europe’s Jewish Heartland”, is now up and viewable at Penn State Harrisburg library’s Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room. The show is small, but runs until May 1 — and I give a gallery talk there on March 21.
Stari Sambir
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
I’ve just put up some new photos on this site — mainly in the Ukraine (Sadhora and Stari Sambir) and Romania (Suceava, Piatra Neamt) sections. I’ll be putting up some more images soon.
Tablet Magazine has published my article on this project, along with a slide show.
It was the first week in September, and in cowboy boots and jeans, camera slung over my shoulder, I crunched through the springy thick tangle of undergrowth that carpets the old Jewish cemetery in Radauti, a market town in the far north of Romania, near the Ukrainian border. Around me stretched the crowded, ragged rows of tilted tombstones: gray and mossy green, some still bearing remnants of the blue and black and red painted decoration that once adorned the exquisite, ornate carving on their faces.
Read the full article HERE
I have also finally gone through the hundreds of photos I took on my recent trip and have begun to post them to the photo galleries on this site.
(Candle)sticks on Stone 