Ruth Bondy

Bondy was a Holocaust survivor who wrote for the Israeli newspaper Davar and translated books written in Czech to Hebrew.

[1] She studied literature and journalism in Czechoslovakia and was a member of a Zionist group as a teenager.

[1] After the end of World War II, Bondy trained in the military as a volunteer and moved to Haifa, Israel in 1948.

[3] Outside of journalism, Bondy translated Czech books into Hebrew and wrote multiple biographies including ones about Jakob Edelstein and Pinchas Rosen.

[4] Her 1976 book The Emissary: The Life of Enzo Sereni won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize.

Ruth Bondy, 1969
Ruth Bondy, 1969