Ruth Ellen Gruber RSS

is JTA’s senior European correspondent. Based in Rome, she travels and writes extensively on Jewish affairs in Italy, Central and Eastern Europe and other European countries. A former UPI reporter, she has also written for The New York Times and the Encyclopaedia Judaica. She is also the author of several books: Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe, Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to East-Central Europe and Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today.

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• Italy’s prime minister vows to fight anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial

  October 17, 2012 10:08am

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti promised his country’s Jews that he would stand beside them in the fight against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

• Polish Jewish editor wins prize for novel about Holocaust memory

  October 11, 2012 1:32pm

  The editor of a Polish Jewish monthly was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature for a novel that deals with Holocaust memory.

• Italian president joins Rome’s Jews in marking ’82 attack

  October 10, 2012 3:51pm

  Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano participated in a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of a terror attack on Rome’s main synagogue that killed a toddler.

• Honoring of Italian fascist angers local Jewish group

  October 10, 2012 12:29pm

  A new Italian women’s group has added its voice to protests over a publicly funded monument honoring the World War II-era fascist leader Rodolfo Graziani.

• In southern Italy, long-lost Jews returning to the fold

  October 3, 2012 3:15pm

  The mainstream Orthodox Jewish community is embracing tiny communities in southern Italy of Jews who are embracing a religion that went underground during the Inquisition.

• Museum housing Sarajevo Haggadah to close

  October 3, 2012 10:03am

  The museum keeping the centuries-old Sarajevo Haggadah is set to close due to a lack of funds.

• Shlomo Venezia, who survived being an Auschwitz Sonderkommando, dies

  October 2, 2012 10:34am

  Shlomo Venezia, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in an Auschwitz Sonderkommando unit and spent years bearing personal testimony to the Shoah, has died.

• New Israeli envoy to Vatican takes post

  September 30, 2012 5:00pm

  Zion Evrony has taken up his post as Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See.

• Man with a mission: Italian pianist revives music created in concentration camps

  September 27, 2012 1:37pm

  Italian pianist Francesco Lotoro travels the globe, bringing to light music that was composed and often performed in Nazi-era concentration camps.

• Israeli scholar Yehuda Elkana dies

  September 27, 2012 11:18am

  Israeli scholar Yehuda Elkana, who headed the Central European University, died at the age of 78.