Mandel, Ruth B

LC control no.	n 80124299
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mandel, Ruth B. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Blumenstock, Ruth, 1938-2020
Other standard no.	0000000067211102 94761381 Q88020421
Located	Princeton (N.J.)
Birth date	1938-08-29
Death date	2020-04-11
Place of birth	Vienna (Austria)
Place of death	Princeton (N.J.)
Field of activity	Political science Women--Political activity
Affiliation	Eagleton Institute of Politics Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics (Eagleton Institute of Politics) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Profession or occupation	Political scientists College administrators
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Found in	Her In the running, 1981: t.p. (Ruth B. Mandel) Her In the running, 1983, c1981: CIP t.p. (Ruth B. Mandel) data sheet (b. 8/29/38) Washington post WWW site, viewed April 17, 2020 (in obituary dated April 17, 2020: Ruth B. Mandel; leading scholar and advocate of women in politics; Dr. Mandel, 81, died April 11 at her home in Princeton, N.J. Her death was announced by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, which she had led from 1995 until last year, and where she helped found the Center for American Women and Politics in 1971. Ruth Blumenstock was born in Vienna on Aug. 29, 1938. Dr. Mandel studied English literature at Brooklyn College, where she graduated in 1960, and at the University of Connecticut, where she received a PhD in 1969. She taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Rider College in New Jersey before joining Rutgers, where her first husband, Barrett John Mandel, taught English literature) New York times, 15 Apr. 2020 (Ruth B. Mandel; born Ruth Blumenstock Aug. 29, 1938 in Vienna [Austria], died Saturday [Apr. 11] in Princeton, N.J., aged 81; an infant when she and her parents fled Germany on the eve of World War II -- they were among the 937 passengers, almost all of them Jewish refugees, aboard the ocean liner St. Louis on what was often called the Voyage of the Damned; Ruth and her parents made it safely to England; they moved to the United States after the war, and she went on to become the director of the influential Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, after running what is now called the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute; also became an official with the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, and spent years bearing witness, preserving memory and educating new generations about how the past can inform the present)
Associated language	eng