Ruth Gay (née Slotkin; October 19, 1922 – May 9, 2006) was an American writer whose work concerned Jewish life.
She won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction for Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America (1996).
As a result, she transferred to Queens College, where she was a member of the leftist student Zionist organization.
[2] Slotkin earned a bachelor's degree from Queens College and a master's in library science from Columbia University in 1969.
"[1] In 2002, she published "Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II" through Yale University Press.