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for the biologist see Samuel H. Gruber

Samuel D. Gruber is an American art and architectural historian, and expert and activist in the documentation, protection and preservation of historic Jewish sites and monuments.

He is Director of the Jewish Heritage Research Center (Syracuse, NY), a private consulting firm; and President of the not-for-profit educational International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM) . From 1989 until 1995 he served as founding director of the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund and from 1998 through 2008 as Research Director of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. Since 2001 he has been the Rothman Family and Holstein Family Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University.

He is author or editor of numerous articles and survey reports about Jewish monuments, and is a frequent public lecturer in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Gruber attended the (American) Overseas School of Rome from which he graduated in 1973. While there he studied Art History with Urban historian Allan Ceen. Gruber received his B.A. degree in Medieval Studies from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in the History of Art and Archaeology, with a dissertation on the architecture and urbanism of medieval Todi (Italy). He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He is recipient of many grants individually, or for projects with which he is involved. Since 2006 he has received research grants from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, the AIA New York Chapter, and the Delmas Foundation.

In addition to his work for the International Survey of Jewish Monuments, Dr. Gruber serves on many charitable boards and advisory committees. He is President of the Preservation Association of Central New York.

In 1990, for the World Monuments Fund, Gruber organized and chaired the first international conference on the preservation of Jewish historic sites. Since then he has participated and helped organize many related conferences and seminars including ones in Paris (1999), Prague (2004), and Bratislava (2009).

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