# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-leiserowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:02:14.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-leiserowitz"
name: "Ruth Leiserowitz"
slug: "ruth-leiserowitz"
description: "Ruth Leiserowitz is a German historian. Her research primarily focuses on the history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the history of Jews in the Baltic-Polish region and former East Prussia. From 2009 to 2024, she served as Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Since April 2025, she has been a Senior Researcher at Klaipėda University."
tagline: "German historian and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Leiserowitz_Portrait.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.714285714285714
  historical:           4.608928000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روث ليسيرويتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth Leiserowitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Leiserowitz"
    title: "Ruth Leiserowitz"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Leiserowitz"
    title: "Ruth Leiserowitz"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DA%BE_%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B2"
    title: "روتھ لیسرووٹز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101425"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump