Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and "fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle" ( The New York Times).

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived an extraordinary life as a foreign correspondent, photographer, humanitarian, and author. This collection is comprised of three of her most gripping memoirs, covering many of the most significant historical events in the first half of the twentieth century.

Ahead of Time: At the tender age of eighty, the trailblazing journalist looked back on her remarkable first twenty-five years: growing up in a Brooklyn shtetl; entering New York University at fifteen; becoming the world's youngest person to earn a PhD at nineteen in Cologne, Germany; being exposed to Hitler's rise to power; and becoming the first American to travel to Siberia at the age of twenty-four, reporting on Gulag conditions for the New York Herald Tribune, in this "beautifully crafted" memoir ( Publishers Weekly).

"Ruth Gruber's singular autobiography is both informative and poignant. Read it and your own memory will be enriched." -Elie Wiesel

Haven: In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees were chosen by President Roosevelt to receive asylum in the United States. Working for the secretary of the interior, Gruber volunteered to shepherd them on their secret route across the Atlantic from Italy. She recorded the refugees' dangerous passage, along with the aftermath of their arrival, which involved a fight to stay in the US after the war ended. The "remarkable story" was made into a TV miniseries starring Natasha Richardson as Gruber ( Booklist).

"[A] touching story... [Ruth Gruber] has put us into the full picture and humanized it." - The New York Times

Inside of Time: Unstoppable at ninety-one, Gruber, "with clarity, insight and humor," revisited the years 1941 to 1952, recounting her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the US government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees' emigration from war-torn Europe to Israel, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir ( Publishers Weekly).

"Gruber bore witness, spoke bluntly, galvanized public opinion, inspired people to action." -Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times

Ruth Gruber (1911-2016) was an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, she was the author of nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America. Gruber passed away in 2016 at the age of 105.

• Cover Page
• Ahead of Time
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
• Part One: Brooklyn
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• Part Two: Germany
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• Part Three: The Soviet Arctic
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• Part Four: The Gulag
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  • Index
• Haven
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
• Part One: The Struggle in Washington
• Part Two: The Voyage of The Henry Gibbins
• Part Three: The Oswego Adventure
• Part Four: After They Crossed the Rainbow Bridge
  • Appendix
  • Index
• Inside of Time
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
• Part 1: ALASKA
  • 1 MISS GRUBER GOES TO WASHINGTON
  • 2 FDR AND ELEANOR HOLD SEPARATE PRESS CONFERENCES
  • 3 A CONTROVERSIAL BATH
  • 4 SCHOOLMARMS AND WHORES
  • 5 ANCHORAGE BOOMS
  • 6 THE SILVER BULLET
  • 7 SAILING DOWN THE YUKON RIVER
  • 8 THE RIME OF THE BROOKLYN MARINER
  • 9 NOME
  • 10 LEARNING TO LIVE INSIDE OF TIME
  • 11 THE MAD CRUISE OF THE ATALANTA
  • 12 THE PRIBIL OF ISLANDS
  • 13 ON MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD
  • 14 PREPARING FOR WAR
  • 15 DECEMBER 7, 1941
• Part 2: WASHINGTON IN WARTIME
  • 16 THE WAR BECAME A MEMBER OF THE WEDDING
  • 17 THE ARMY LAYS THE CANOL PIPELINE TO FUEL THE ALCAN HIGHWAY AND STRIKE AT JAPAN
  • 18 HELEN ROGERS REID AND THE HERALD TRIBUNE FORUM
  • 19 THE ROAD TO HAVEN
  • 20 OSWEGO
  • 21 WAR COMES TO THE WALDORF ASTORIA
  • 22 THE END OF THE WAR
  • 23 PANIC SPREADS
• Part 3: THE DP CAMPS AND ISRAEL
  • 24 OFF TO EUROPE
  • 25 "WE WANT TO GO, WE MUST GO, WE WILL GO TO PALESTINE"
  • 26 COLLECTING STORIES FROM DPS
  • 27 NUREMBERG: TRIAL OF THE CENTURY
  • 28 ARRESTED BY CZECH POLICE
  • 29 A PRESS BLACKOUT IN VIENNA
  • 30 FROM CAIRO TO JERUSALEM
  • 31 "IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM"
  • 32 WE VISIT THE KING
  • 33 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL?
  • 34 "1947: THE FATEFUL YEAR"
  • 35 THE LAST COMMITTEE
  • 36 STORMING ACRE PRISON
  • 37 EXODUS 1947
  • 38 CYPRUS AND PORT DE BOUC
  • 39 A LINE OF FIRE AND BLOOD
• Part 4: THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL
  • 40 THE NATION IS BORN, THE WAR BEGINS
  • 41 LIFE AS A WAR CORRESPONDENT
  • 42 BRUSHES WITH DEATH, BRUSHES WITH GREATNESS
  • 43 FALLING IN LOVE IN PUERTO RICO
  • 44 MR. BEVIN AND MRS. REID
  • 45 THE WEDDING
  • 46 ELEANOR VISITS THE HOLY LAND
  • APPENDIX
  • INDEX
• About the Author
• Copyright