Wisse receiving the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities from President George W. Bush (2007)
Born
Ruth Roskies
(1936-05-13) May 13, 1936 (age 88)
Czernowitz, Romania (present day Ukraine)
Nationality
Canadian
Alma mater
Columbia University (MA) McGill University (PhD)
Occupation(s)
Historian, Researcher, Author, and Translator
Ruth Wisse (/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; néeRoskies; 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 noted scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.
RuthWisse (/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature...
historian Donovan Wisse (born 1997), Surinamese kickboxer Mabel Wisse Smit (born 1968), widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau RuthWisse (born 1936), writer...
conferences to study antisemitism. Harvard professors Alan Dershowitz and RuthWisse were co-chairs of ISGAP's international board. The executive committee...
Adelbert von Chamisso. According to Harvard University literature professor RuthWisse, the schlemiel as a type emerges in the Yiddish literature of the period...
show with empathy the woman's point of view in the act of love or sin". RuthWisse, a scholar of Yiddish literature, wrote that Blinken was highly popular...
Board of Visitors are Vernon Smith, Heather Mac Donald, Harry Lewis, RuthWisse, Roger Kimball, and Jordan Peterson who was appointed Chancellor in May...
Liberal Betrayal of the Jews is a 1992 book by RuthWisse. Literary scholar Edward Alexander describes Wisse's book as an effort to explain how Arabs, having...
Chair in Yiddish Literature in his honor. The Chair is currently held by RuthWisse. Peretz has been a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's...
and pro-Israel hawk Daniel Pipes and neoconservative Harvard professor RuthWisse. JNS's publisher Russel Pergament described the wire service as a "nonpartisan...
Hertog Cynthia Ozick Richard Pipes Pauline L. Schultz Henry Leonard Snyder RuthWisse Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art 2008 Gabor Boritt...
unwittingly) put by one of Israel’s most vigorous apologists, Harvard professor RuthWisse. “In the case of the so-called Arab-Israel conflict,” she explained, “to...
In her book No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, Yiddish literature scholar RuthWisse stated that "if I ask an assortment of Israelis, 'what comes to mind when...
having "cribbed" the information from an article by Irwin Cotler and RuthWisse published in the American magazine, Commentary. Cotler eventually issued...
2010 with an editorial board that included Michael Walzer and RuthWisse, Shlomo Avineri, Ruth Gavison, and other prominent Jewish thinkers. The editor is...
1977. ISBN 978-0380008872 The Best of Sholem Aleichem. Edited with Ruth R. Wisse. Washington: New Republic Books, 1979. ISBN 0915220482 How We Lived:...
professor RuthWisse to speak at Stanford. "While her audience ate Challah bread and drank champagne for the Kiddush", wrote The Stanford Daily, Wisse placed...
Cornel West and Michael Sandel (arguing for affirmative action) with RuthWisse and himself (arguing against affirmative action). The debate attracted...
Taub (Trustee Emeritus, died 2011) Dr. Avital Darmon George Rohr Dr. RuthWisse Alan R. Feld, Senior Managing Director of Sanford Bernstein’s private...
Abraham de Sola (1825–1882), professor of Semitic languages and literature RuthWisse (1936– ), professor of Yiddish literature Howard Adelman CM (1938– ),...
musicologist Sydir Vorobkevych (1836–1903) Ukrainian composer and writer RuthWisse, professor of literature Mariya Yaremchuk (born 1993), Ukrainian singer...
board chair was Kahn and its first executive director was Lois Roisman. RuthWisse argues that the Jewish Fund for Justice is one of a number of left-of-center...
without permission," he said. Harvard University literature professor RuthWisse condemned the flotilla as a "kill-the-Jews flotilla", stating that its...
Artist and Her Legacy Yes Yes Co-directed by Liz Walber 2021 Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?) Yes Yes Co-directed by Emily Felder; narrated by RuthWisse...
domestic. Center fellows include Norman Podhoretz, Michael Medved and RuthWisse. The Center has sponsored many forums around the country billed as "Liberal...
by Rabbi Hirschy and Mrs. Elkie Zarchi in 1997. According to Professor RuthWisse, its success is due to the personality and energy of Rabbi Zarchi. The...