Ruth Gay, who wrote several books about European Jewish life, died Tuesday in New York at age 83. In 1997, Gay received the National Book Award for “Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America.” Her most recent book was about Jews who returned to Germany after World War II.
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