Creator Bio
Ruth Gay
1922–2006
Ruth Gay (b. Slotkin) was born and raised in New York City, where she graduated from Queens College; she was married to the sociologist Nathan Glazer. In her writing, Gay (who wrote under the surname of her second husband, Peter Gay) chronicled the experiences of Jews through the Holocaust, during its aftermath in Germany, and in the United States. In 1997, Gay received the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Jewish Object: A Shopper’s Report
In the new religious revival, the theologians and philosophers have it easy; they can battle about the nature of revelation endlessly in the pages of Commentary. Parents and householders, on the other…
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Unfinished People: East European Jews Encounter America
My father lived to be ninety-eight, and until the end of his life he never failed to introduce my sister and me with a grand gesture as his “two disappointments.” We were, very simply put, an…