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Ruth Rappaport was born on 27 May, 1923 in Leipzig, Germany, is a Jewish-American librarian. Discover Ruth Rappaport's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Librarian
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 27 May, 1923
Birthday 27 May
Birthplace Leipzig, Germany
Date of death 17 November, 2010
Died Place Washington, D.C.
Nationality Germany

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1923

Ruth Rappaport (May 27, 1923 – November 17, 2010) was a Jewish-American librarian.

Her mother's cousin was Helena Rubinstein.

Rappaport was born in Leipzig, in Saxony to Mendel and Chaja Rappaport.

She had two older half-sisters, Mirjam Rappaport Schneider and Clara Rappaport Rosner.

1938

She was a foster child in Zurich in 1938, after running away from her parents when she refused to return to Germany.

Rappaport obtained an American visa and went to Seattle in 1938 to live with her uncle, Carl Rubinstein.

She graduated from Broadway High School, joined Junior Hadassah, and became an editor of Seattle's Jewish Transcript.

She also worked for the Zionist Organization of America chapter in San Francisco.

1943

In 1943 her father died in Buchenwald and her mother probably died in Ravensbrueck.

1946

Most of her papers are held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; there is also the Ruth Rappaport Collection at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center and "Ruth Rappaport papers, 1946-1957" at the University of Washington Special Collections.

The Ruth Rappaport Wisdom Award was created "to recognize the work of one individual annually that has displayed remarkable warmth, wisdom, and commitment to the Capitol Hill Community."

It is awarded by Everyone Home DC (formerly Capitol Hill Group Ministry).

1948

In 1948, she lived in Jerusalem and worked briefly as a photographer for Acme News, then became a photograph archivist for the Foreign Press Office of the new state of Israel in Tel Aviv until the end of 1949.

1950

She then moved to New York and worked for lawyer Max Lowenthal and assisted him with the publication of his book, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 1950.

1951

She moved to Berkeley in 1951 and earned her undergraduate degree in sociology and her master's degree in librarianship from the University of California.

1959

In 1959 she began working for the U.S. Air Force, and as such managed a library at Naha Air Base in Okinawa.

1963

In 1963, she began managing the military libraries in Saigon for the U.S. Navy, agreeing to do so only if there would be no censorship.

1966

In 1966 the U.S. Army took over those libraries, but Rappaport stayed.

While in Vietnam she supervised the library system as it grew from a few books to 39 branch libraries and 117 field collections.

1970

Rappaport quit her position with the Army in 1970.

After this she worked at the Library of Congress for twenty-three years, beginning in 1970; her first assignment there was to help re-catalog books in the Delta collection, which was a collection of pornography and erotica confiscated by the FBI and kept in a locked cage.

Its contents are now integrated with the rest of the collections.

In the mid-1970s she and other catalogers worked to start the Library of Congress Professional Guild (AFSCME Local 2910), because they felt that managers were demanding unreasonable quotas of books cataloged per day.

2006

In 2006 she became a founding member of Capitol Hill Village, an organization created to help seniors age in place.

She was also a founding member of the Hill Havurah on Capitol Hill.

2010

She died in 2010.

She has a memorial bench located in Congressional Cemetery.

2019

In 2019, Kate Stewart published a biography of Rappaport, A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport (Little A).