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Ruth Bondy

ルース・ボンディ

Rūsu Bondi

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1923-06-19 (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Died
2017-11-14 (Ramat Gan, Israel) age 94
Nationality
Czech, Israeli
Languages
Czech, Hebrew
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Prague, Czechoslovakia → Haifa, Israel → Ramat Gan, Israel

Career

Occupations
journalist, translator
Active Years
1940-2017
Affiliations
Davar newspaper, Devar ha-Shavua, Omer newspaper, Tel Aviv University
Memberships
Zionist group

Awards

Sokolov Award
1967
Category: ジャーナリズム
Organization: Israel Journalists' Association
Result: 受賞
Yitzhak Sadeh Prize
1976
Work: The Emissary: The Life of Enzo Sereni
Result: 受賞
Tchernichovsky Prize
2014
Category: 翻訳
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Emissary: The Life of Enzo Sereni

1976 Biography

Biography of Enzo Sereni.

HolocaustZionism

Elder of the Jews: Jacob Edelstein of Theresienstadt

1989 Biography

Biography of Jakob Edelstein.

HolocaustLeadership

Bibliography

  • The Emissary: The Life and Death of Enzo Sereni (1973)
  • Small Comforts (1975)
  • Felix: Pinhas Rosen and his Time (1980)
  • Chaim Sheba: Physician for All People (1981)
  • Signed and Sealed: A Guide to Journalistic Writing (1982)
  • Elder of the Jews: Jacob Edelstein of Theresienstadt (1989)
  • Whole Fragments (1997)
  • Uprooted Roots (2002)
  • Trapped: Essays on the History of the Czech Jews, 1939–1945 (2008)
  • Not just Kafka and the Golem: In Names, Food and Language: The History of Czech Jews with a Personal Perspective (2014, Hebrew)

Translations by Author

  • The Good Soldier Schweik (Jaroslav Hašek, 1980)
  • Immortality (Milan Kundera, 1991)
  • Life with a Star (Jiří Weil, 1991)
  • Call Me Friend: The Children's Newspaper "Kamarad" from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943–1944 (1998)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
JournalisticBiographicalPersonal perspective
Recurring Motifs
Holocaust experiencesHistory of Czech JewsCultural exchange through translation

Health

  • Holocaust survivor
    1942-1945
    Imprisoned in Theresienstadt (1942) and Birkenau (1943).

Legacy

Renowned translator of Czech literature into Hebrew, prominent Israeli journalist, and Holocaust survivor who wrote memoirs and biographies.

Trivia

  • Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
  • First woman to receive the Sokolov Award (1967).