University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH2017-002Rappaport, Ruth, 1923-2010Ruth Rappaport
photograph collection1943-circa 1970s1 box and 1 oversize folder of photographsCollection materials are in
English.Photographs of
the friends and family of Ruth Rappaport, who grew up in Seattle and later
worked in Jerusalem and as a librarian at the Library of CongressRuth Rappaport was born on May 27, 1923 in Leipzig, Saxony, and died
on November 10, 2010, in Washington, D.C. She migrated to the United States in
1933 on the S.S. Veedam to live with her uncle, Carl Rubinstein, who owned a
salmon canning company. Her uncle's son, Sam, eventually took over the business
and became a local philanthropist. After graduating from Broadway High School in
Seattle, Washington, she went to a local business college and then studied
part-time at the University of Washington. She worked for the USO during the
war and as an editor for the
Jewish Transcript. In 1947 she moved to
San Francisco and became a secretary for the Zionist Organization of America.
She then moved to Jerusalem where she lived from 1948 to 1950. She served as a
correspondent for the
Jewish Transcript and as a photographer
and started Israel's first photograph archive. Upon returning to the United
States, she attended the University of California, Berkeley and received her B.A.
in Sociology and her Master's in Librarianship, graduating in 1958. She
worked for the military in Asia and later worked as a librarian at the Library
of Congress from 1970-1992. Photographs relating to Ruth Rappaport and her friends and family.
Contains a series of photographs during World War II and after (from 1943-1946)
showing friends in uniform and at gatherings. A man, Gamal Mostafa, appears in
many of the photographs. Another man depicted in the photographs is Aziz Sidky,
who may possibly be the same Aziz Sidky who lived in the United States after
the war and who became the premier of Egypt.
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Request at UW
Donor's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington
Libraries; however, donor is not the copyright owner for all of the
materials.
Evelyn Rubinstein-Benzikry
Material Described Separately: Ruth Rappaport
Papers (Manuscript Collection 5797)
Rappaport, Ruth, 1923-2010--ArchivesRappaport, Ruth, 1923-2010--PhotographsRappaport, Ruth, 1923-2010--Family--PhotographsWorld War, 1939-1945--PhotographsSoldiers--United States--PhotographsPhotographsVisual Materials Collections (University of Washington)Home and FamilyPhotographs