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Raquela

A Woman of Israel

Raquela( )
Author: Gruber, Ruth
ISBN:978-0-451-13769-2
Publication Date:Nov 1979
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Signet
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $3.95
Book Description:

Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America'smaragangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of themaraphenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds,Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central...
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Author Biography
Gruber, Ruth (Author)
Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 30, 1911. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University, a master's degree in German at the University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate in German literature at the University of Cologne. She became a photojournalist and author who documented Joseph Stalin's gulags, life in Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, and the plight of Jewish refugees intercepted by the British on the passage of the Exodus to Palestine in 1947.

She wrote 19 books during her lifetime, mostly based on her own experiences, including Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947, I Went to the Soviet Arctic, and Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story. Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America was made into a two-part CBS mini-series in 2001. She died on November 17, 2016 at the age of 105.

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