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Ruth Wisse (/ w aɪ s /; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. She is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.
5 de abr. de 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.
Ruth R. Wisse was Professor of Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University from 1993–2014 and before that, helped found the Jewish Studies Department at McGill...
Ruth Wisse Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature Emerita Research Fields: Ruth Wisse undertook the study of literature because it seemed to offer more information and experience than any other branch of knowledge.
Ruth R. Wisse, a senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, is the author of If I Am Not for Myself (1997), Jews and Power (2020), and the memoir Free as a Jew (2021), which chronicles some of this story as well.
In her new book, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, Harvard professor emerita Ruth R. Wisse reflects on her experience fleeing the Holocaust as a child, living...
15 de nov. de 2022 · In 2007, she was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities, and in 2004, an Honorary Degree by Yeshiva University. Order Ruth Wisse's "Free as a Jew" here:...
