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Letter from Rome Pope Benedict’s Day of Atonement By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome FEW CROSSTOWN journeys have been loaded with more symbolism than the two-mile route Pope Benedict XVI took...

Revisiting Romania (September 2009)

Letter from Radauti Revisiting Romania By Ruth Ellen Gruber Radauti, Romania In the summer of 1929 Walter Starkie, an Irish scholar and musician, went wandering for a few months in...

Facebook Fakebook (March 2009)

Letter from Who Knows Where Facebook Fakebook By Ruth Ellen Gruber I WAS JUST starting to write this “letter”—about social networking and my own take on the Facebook (FB) phenomenon—when a...

The Expatriate Vote (November 2008)

Letter from Rome The Expatriate Vote By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome In early September I had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. X, American acquaintances who live year-round in Italy. They are a...

Reclaiming a Heritage (January 2008)

Letter from Budapest Reclaiming a Heritage By Ruth Ellen Gruber Budapest On The afternoon of this past Christmas Eve, I gathered with a group of friends for coffee and pálinka (Hungarian...

How I Remember Mom (September 2007)

Letter from Morruzze How I Remember Mom By Ruth Ellen Gruber Morruzze In Santa Monica this past spring, a week after my mother’s funeral, I found myself on a pavement paralleling the...

Sauerkraut Cowboys (March 2007)

______Letter from Berlin_______ Sauerkraut Cowboys By Ruth Ellen Gruber Berlin On My First Day back in Europe after a week and a half in the United States this winter, I attended a dinner...

Tramping to Czechgrass (September 2005)

Letter from Brno Tramping to Czechgrass By Ruth Ellen Gruber Brno, Czech Republic The music I have listened to most over the past year is by a Czech group called Druhâ Trâva. I don't speak...

England Revisited (May 2005)

Letter from London England Revisited By Ruth Ellen Gruber London I have lived in London at various times and under various circumstances during my life, but I had not been to England for...

Freeways and Cowboys in California (February 2005)

Letter from Santa Monica Freeways and Cowboys in California By Ruth Ellen Gruber Santa Monica "I will say that I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finertobacco,truergunsand pistols,...

Truckin' on the Continent (September 2004)

Letter from Morruzze Truckin' on the Continent By Ruth Ellen Gruber Morruzze I've just returned from a threeweek car trip through the heart of Europe. My route took me in a loop from my...

Europe Tastes the Wild West (May 2004)

Letter from Morruzze Europe Tastes the Wild West By Ruth Ellen Gruber Morruzze Talk around the table at lunch this past Easter turned, not surprisingly, to food. I was the guest of...

Before Real-Time Reporting (January 2004)

Letter from Morruzze Before Real-Time Reporting By Ruth Ellen Gruber Morruzze I recently gave a lecture to a class of American journalism students taking a two-month course in Florence. I...

Aging with the Stones (July 2003)

Letter from Vienna Aging with the Stones By Ruth Ellen Gruber Vienna My friend, a rather senior European diplomat, said he would try to get us tickets for the opera. Instead, he got us...

Italy's Showbiz Politics (March 2003)

Letter from Rome Italy's Showbiz Politics By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome A RECENT CARTOON in an Italian magazine depicts a family whose apartment is plagued by a mysterious stench. "It smells...

Stocktaking in Poland (November 2002)

Letter from Warsaw Stocktaking in Poland By Ruth Ellen Gruber Warsaw Ihad last seen Jerzy Urban in January 1983, when I was the chief United Press International correspondent here...

What Europeans Really Think of America (July 2002)

Letter from Morruzze What Europeans Really Think of America By Ruth Ellen Gruber MORRUZZE This past June the Leftleaning British Guardian published a column titled "Fifty Ways to Love...

A Gnawing Fascist Nostalgia (March 2002)

Letter from Trieste A Gnawing Fascist Nostalgia By Ruth Ellen Gruber Trieste This year, at a supermarket newsstand, I bought a calendar that I would never put on my wall. It is...

Italy Searches for Its Soul (November 2001)

Reactions to the War-2 Italy Searches for Its Soul By Ruth Ellen Gruber Baschi Around the middle of October I received an official-looking envelope in the mail. It was sent from an...

Building Bridges in the Balkans (May 2001)

Letter from Sarajevo Building Bridges in the Balkans By Ruth Ellen Gruber Sarajevo The suavely suited functionary of Sarajevo's Union Bank beckoned us to follow, and we did— through...

Redefining 'Normal' in Yugoslavia (January 2001)

Letter from Belgrade Redefining 'Normal' in Yugoslavia By Ruth Ellen Gruber Belgrade The train pulled out of Subotica, on Yugoslavia's northern border with Hungary, just after 5 p.m.,...

Dancing in Wroclaw (September 2000)

Letter from Poland Dancing in Wroclaw By Ruth Ellen Gruber Wroclaw Ellen Friedland heralded her forthcoming marriage here to Curt Fissel with a press release that declared: "Our wedding is...

Romania's New Darkness (November 1999)

LETTER FROM BUCHAREST Romania's New Darkness By Ruth Ellen Gruber Bucharest On Halloween, a beautiful and unseasonably warm fall day, I was bitten by a dog as I strolled past the...

Trouble on the Overnight Sleeper (August 1999)

LETTER FROM ROME Trouble on the Overnight Sleeper ?y Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome I enjoy long distance train trips and frequently take overnight sleepers across Europe. Generally I travel...

The Art of the Siege (May 1999)

LETTER FROM PARIS The Art of the Siege By Ruth Ellen Gruber Paris Perhaps it is because I lived in Belgrade during the late 1970s, and spent much time there and elsewhere in the former...

Benigni's Corrective Vision (April 1999)

A LETTER FROM ROME Benigni's Corrective vision By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome Amplifying his original brief and devastating review of Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful, New...

The Beats in Translation (November 1998)

LETTER FROM BASCHI The Beats in Translation By Ruth Ellen Gruber Baschi A few years ago, I stood at midnight on the corner of Broadway and 110th Street in Manhattan with a musician...

Celebrating Mitteleuropa (September 1998)

LETTER FROM CIVIDALE Celebrating Mitteleuropa By Ruth Ellen Gruber ClVIDALE DEL FRIULI It was a warm Saturday summer afternoon. I sat with Italian scholar Claudio Magris on a café...

Fast Food and Fine Architecture (June 1998)

LETTER FROM BUDAPEST Fast Food and Fine Architecture By Ruth Ellen Gruber Budapest A friend of mine lives at one of the Hungarian capital's most famous intersections—where elegant Andrassy...

The Busy Italian Demimonde (February 1998)

LETTER FROM TODI The Busy Italian Demimonde By Ruth Ellen Gruber Todi Just as the Monica S. Lewinsky story has focused public interest on sex at the top in the United States— or at least...

Standing on Hitler's Grandstand (January 1998)

LETTER FROM NUREMBERG Standing on Hitler's Grandstand By Ruth Ellen Gruber Nuremberg "It's really incredible," said Eckart Dietzfelbinger, shakine his head in mock dismay. "The Nazis...

The Jewish Ghetto as History (December 1997)

LETTER FROM BOSKOVICE The Jewish Ghetto as History By Ruth Ellen Gruber BOSKOVICE I first visited Boskovice, in the Czech Republic, in 1990. The Communists had been ousted less than...

Italy's New 'In' Place (July 1997)

LETTER FROM UMBRIA Italy's New 'In' Place By Ruth Ellen Gruber MORRUZZE In the opening sentence of Out of Africa, Karen Blixen famously proclaimed that she "had a farm in Africa, at...

Germany's Klezmer Craze (April 1997)

LETTER FROM FLENSBURG Germany's Klezmer Craze By Ruth Ellen Gruber Flensburg I don't remember ever hearing of the north German town of Flensburg until shortly before my recent trip there....

Gruenberg, Benjamin C.

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GRUNDY, KENNETH W.

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