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May 12, 2014 · Beneath the Placid Exterior: Ruth Wisse is a small, gray-haired woman who is not afraid to use sharp words; she once accused The New Yorker of “hate-mongering” when it came to Israel. Image by...
Jan 19, 2022 · Ruth Wisse has invited readers to view the formulation of her intellectual and Jewish identity amidst the setting of twentieth century Montreal, New York City and Israel.
Aug 24, 2022 · A Polish Jew born in Bialystok in 1905, he was a chemist who had set his sights on settling in Palestine. But after his marriage to the woman he had met in Vilna in the early 1920s, he accepted a...
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Ruth Wisse is the author of the new book, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation. Its Canadian debut coincided with Jewish Book Month, hosted by the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. But the timing wasn’t a coincidence.
Nov 15, 2021 · Free as a Jew is an “intellectual memoir,” but it is also a family history replete with charming photos; a story of European Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust; and a warm ...
Aug 17, 2024 · As a scholar and a literary and social critic, Ruth R. Wisse is a unique figure in American Jewish letters. She bridges the worlds of Yiddish and American culture, of literature and politics, and of Israel and the diaspora. In 2000, she won the National Jewish Book Award for The Modern Jewish Canon.
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Dec 20, 2023 · Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.
