WRITER

Ruth Klüger

1931 - 2020

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Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 6 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Klüger has received more than 101,392 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Klüger is the 5,180th most popular writer, the 920th most popular biography from Austria and the 67th most popular Austrian Writer.

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  • 16

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  • 2.63

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Notable Works

Unterwegs verloren
College teachers, Jews, Germanists
2008
Frauen lesen anders
Feminist criticism, Women and literature, Women in literature
1996
The last escape
Emigration and immigration, Jews, Persecutions
Most of us think of the Mossad as the Israeli equivalent to America's CIA. That is correct today (2017), but in the late 1930s, the Mossad was made up of nine men and one woman--Ruth Kluger. Their purpose was to spirit Europe's Jews into, as they called it, "Eretz Israel", the "Land of Israel". Since Great Britain had severely restricted legal Jewish immigration to Palestine (the "Aliyah Aleph"), the Mossad smuggled Jews into Palestine (the "Aliyah Beth"). Ruth tells her story from the time she was recruited into the Mossad through the end of World War II and the establishment of the State of Israel. The book is much more interesting than this synopsis, believe me. And Ruth Kluger-Aliav (she changed her name when she emigrated to Israel) is not to be confused with Ruth Kluger, a professor emerita of German studies at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kluger (b. 1931) was deported from Vienna and spent time in concentration camps as a child; her book *Still Alive* tells of those experiences.
1973
Gemalte Fensterscheiben
German poetry, History and criticism
2007
Landscapes of Memory
Jews, Biography, Jewish children in the Holocaust
2003
weiter leben
Biography, German Prisoners and prisons, Holocaust survivors
Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-of-age story that delves into the unsentimental observations of childhood, "Still Alive" rejects easy assumptions about history as Kluger relates how she and her family survived the Holocaust.
1992

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ruth Klüger ranks 5,180 out of 7,302. Before her are Furqat, Philippe Néricault Destouches, John Kaminiates, Adelaide Anne Procter, Alexander Odoevsky, and Tony Duvert. After her are Enric Valor i Vives, Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Ernie Pyle, Grant Allen, Bart D. Ehrman, and Maurice Carême.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Ruth Klüger ranks 419. Before her are Luciano Tesi, Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Richard Murphy, Walter Taibo, Géza Gulyás, and Zoltán Latinovits. After her are Virginia McKenna, William Deane, Aldo Aureggi, Jacques Miller, Maria Gusakova, and Sergei Adian. Among people deceased in 2020, Ruth Klüger ranks 453. Before her are Hennadiy Kernes, Vaughan Jones, Lucien Sève, Shirley Douglas, Tom Belsø, and Franca Valeri. After her are Lajos Szűcs, Alex Trebek, Aldo Aureggi, Norbert Blüm, Sergei Adian, and Kevin Conway.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ruth Klüger ranks 920 out of 1,424. Before her are Josef Smistik (1905), Adolf Kainz (1903), Anton Walbrook (1896), Kurt Oppelt (1932), Franz West (1947), and Herwig Wolfram (1934). After her are Norbert Hofer (1971), Felix Kaspar (1915), Eva Janko (1945), Eric Wolf (1923), Helene von Druskowitz (1856), and Peter Platzer (1910).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ruth Klüger ranks 67. Before her are Géza Csáth (1887), Ava (1060), H. C. Artmann (1921), Robert Menasse (1954), Rosa Mayreder (1858), and Ruth Maier (1920). After her are André Heller (1947), Ferdinand von Saar (1833), Eva Ibbotson (1925), Christoph Ransmayr (1954), Thomas Brezina (1963), and Walter Abish (1931).

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