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{{short description|American writer, advocate}} {{Infobox person | name = Ruth Sidransky | image = | caption = | othername = | birth_name = | birth_date = July 1, 1929 | birth_place = Bronx, New York | death_date = October 7, 2017 | death_place = | burial_place = | nationality = | alma_mater = | occupation = Writer, advocate for the deaf | years_active = | known_for = | spouse = | children = | mother = | father = }} '''Ruth Sidransky''' (July 1, 1929 – October 7, 2017) was an American advocate for the deaf. She was born in the Bronx, New York to deaf parents. Her first language was sign, which she used exclusively as a young child. She translated for her parents throughout their lives.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth Sidransky Rosenberg, 88, teacher and author |date=9 October 2017 |url=https://theberkshireedge.com/ruth-sidransky-rosenberg-88-teacher-and-author/ |work=The Berkshire Edge |accessdate=23 March 2020}}</ref>
==Life and work== In 1990, Sidransky wrote ''In Silence'', a memoir of her life among the world of the deaf. ''The New York Times'' called it "a great act of love."<ref>{{Cite news |title=IN SHORT: NONFICTION |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1991/02/03/017391.html?pageNumber=78 |access-date=2024-01-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> Sidransky appeared on ''Good Morning, America'', and NPR and spoke on behalf of American Sign about its legitimacy as a distinct and singular language. Sidransky was the principal of an American school abroad, a private counselor to disabled children and a television show host in Canada.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
Her son is functional medicine doctor Mark Hyman.
Sidransky co-founded the Jewish Community Association of the Deaf in Plantation with Hank Hyman. In her ninth decade, Sidransky published three books in 2015: ''A Woman’s Primer'', a look at the qualities women need to survive and thrive; ''Bravo Carrie'', her memoir of her adult daughter's struggle with cancer, and ''Reparations'', a novel about young American Jews in Europe at the end of World War II.
==References== *{{cite book | isbn=1563682877 | title=In Silence: Growing up Hearing in a Deaf World | last1=Sidransky | first1=Ruth | year=2006 }} *{{cite web|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-09-19/news/9002140951_1_deaf-parents-mary-sidransky-ruth-sidransky|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130023331/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-09-19/news/9002140951_1_deaf-parents-mary-sidransky-ruth-sidransky|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2015|title=A Voice For Many A Pompano Beach Woman Speaks Up The Deaf And Elderly.|work=Sun Sentinel|accessdate=16 February 2015}} *{{cite journal |last1=Adams |first1=Timothy Dow |title=Deafness and Deftness in CODA Autobiography: Ruth Sidransky's ''In Silence'' and Lou Ann Walker's ''A Loss For Words'' |journal=Biography |date=March 1997 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=141–155 |doi=10.1353/bio.2010.0087 |language=en |issn=1529-1456}}
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