A Well-Read Woman

Ruth Rappaport’s passport photograph, December 29, 1947.

Ruth Rappaport collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Party in Israel with Moshe Pearlman (fifth from left), ca. 1948–1949.

Photo probably taken by Ruth Rappaport, Ruth Rappaport collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ruth Rappaport in Israel, ca. 1948–1949.

Ruth Rappaport collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Illustration of Ruth Rappaport by G. Giuliani, Hotel Columbia, Genoa, 1949.

Courtesy of Guy Rosner

Ruth Rappaport, Genoa, December 26, 1949.

Courtesy of Guy Rosner

Ruth Rappaport (right) with other librarians, ca. 1960–1969.

Ruth Rapport Collection, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

Captain Archie Kuntze, undated.

Ruth Rapport Collection, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

Ruth Rappaport, ca. 1960–1969.

Ruth Rapport Collection, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

Ruth Rappaport and unknown man in library in Vietnam, undated.

Ruth Rapport Collection, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

Ruth Rappaport at the opening of Miller Library at the Vinh Long Airfield, 1966.

Ruth Rapport Collection, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA

Catrine Goska, Ruth Rappaport, Regene Ross, Jurij Dobczansky, Ruta Penkiunas, Irene Roberts, and Catherine Hiebert Kerst (left to right) at the Library of Congress, 1985.

Courtesy of private collection

Ruth Rappaport at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, undated.

Courtesy of Ben Zuras

Ben Zuras, Ruth Rappaport, and Peter Bartis on Ruth’s front porch, August 2010.

Courtesy of Ben Zuras

Photograph of Ruth Rappaport, undated.

Courtesy of Guy Rosner

Part VII:

Ruthie’s Little Empire