Background
Whitman, Ruth was born on May 28, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of Meyer David and Martha Harriet (Sherman) Bashein.
( In poetry and prose, Ruth Whitman recreates the last ni...)
In poetry and prose, Ruth Whitman recreates the last nine months in the life of Hanna Senesh-poet, pioneer, and hero of World War II. Having immigrated to Palestine in 1939, Hanna later decided to return to her native Hungary to help save its Jewish population from the Nazis. She trained with the British Intelligence, parachuted into Yugoslavia, and eventually slipped across the border to Hungary. Tragically, the very next day she was denounced by an informer. After nine months of imprisonment, interrogation, and torture, Hanna Senesh, aged twenty-three, was executed. She left behind a legacy of poems and her diary. Her work is now part of the folk heritage of Israel. Ruth Whitman has written an inspiring postscript to Hanna's diary. Based on research and interviews with Hanna's family, friends, and fellow parachutists, the book begins where time and circumstance forced Hanna to leave off. The result is a sensitive portrait of a remarkable woman.
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Whitman, Ruth was born on May 28, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of Meyer David and Martha Harriet (Sherman) Bashein.
Bachelor of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1944; Master of Arts, Harvard, 1947.
Editor, Harvard University Press, 1947-1960; director poetry workshop, Cambridge Center Adult Education, 1964-1968; fellow poetry and translation, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, 1968-1970; instructor, Radcliffe Seminars, since 1969; faculty, Harvard University, 1979-1984; visiting poet, Tufts U., 1972, 73; visiting poet in, Israel, 1974, 77, 79, 81; poet-in-residence, Hamden Sydney College, 1974; poet-in-residence, Trinity College, 1975; poet-in-residence, U. Denver, 1976; poet-in-residence, Holy Cross College, 1978; poet-in-residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979, 1989; poet-in-residence, U. Massachusetts, 1980; poet-in-residence, Centre College, Kentucky, 1980, 87; poet-in-residence, Kentucky Arts Commission, 1981; founder, president, Poets Who Teach, Inc., since 1974. Director poetry writing program Massachusetts Council Arts, 1970-1973. Visiting professor poetry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989-1992.
( In poetry and prose, Ruth Whitman recreates the last ni...)
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She was an early cooperative member of Alice James Books, and was the poetry editor for Radcliffe Quarterly from 1980 - 1995.
Married Cedric Whitman, October 13, 1941. Children: Rachel Claudia, Leda Miriam. Married Firman Houghton, July 22, 1959.
1 child, David Will; married Morton Sacks, October 6, 1966.