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Ruth R. Wisse
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)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materColumbia University (MA)
McGill University (PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian, Researcher, Author, and Translator

Ruth Wisse (/ws/; 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 noted scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.

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historian Donovan Wisse (born 1997), Surinamese kickboxer Mabel Wisse Smit (born 1968), widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau Ruth Wisse (born 1936), writer...

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Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

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conferences to study antisemitism. Harvard professors Alan Dershowitz and Ruth Wisse were co-chairs of ISGAP's international board. The executive committee...

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Schlemiel

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Adelbert von Chamisso. According to Harvard University literature professor Ruth Wisse, the schlemiel as a type emerges in the Yiddish literature of the period...

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Meir Blinken

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show with empathy the woman's point of view in the act of love or sin". Ruth Wisse, a scholar of Yiddish literature, wrote that Blinken was highly popular...

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Ralston College

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Board of Visitors are Vernon Smith, Heather Mac Donald, Harry Lewis, Ruth Wisse, Roger Kimball, and Jordan Peterson who was appointed Chancellor in May...

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If I Am Not For Myself

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Liberal Betrayal of the Jews is a 1992 book by Ruth Wisse. Literary scholar Edward Alexander describes Wisse's book as an effort to explain how Arabs, having...

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Marty Peretz

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Chair in Yiddish Literature in his honor. The Chair is currently held by Ruth Wisse. Peretz has been a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's...

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Jewish News Syndicate

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and pro-Israel hawk Daniel Pipes and neoconservative Harvard professor Ruth Wisse. JNS's publisher Russel Pergament described the wire service as a "nonpartisan...

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National Humanities Medal

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Hertog Cynthia Ozick Richard Pipes Pauline L. Schultz Henry Leonard Snyder Ruth Wisse Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art 2008 Gabor Boritt...

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Weaponization of antisemitism

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unwittingly) put by one of Israel’s most vigorous apologists, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse. “In the case of the so-called Arab-Israel conflict,” she explained, “to...

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HaGashash HaHiver

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In her book No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, Yiddish literature scholar Ruth Wisse stated that "if I ask an assortment of Israelis, 'what comes to mind when...

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Mordecai Richler

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having "cribbed" the information from an article by Irwin Cotler and Ruth Wisse published in the American magazine, Commentary. Cotler eventually issued...

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Jewish Review of Books

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2010 with an editorial board that included Michael Walzer and Ruth Wisse, Shlomo Avineri, Ruth Gavison, and other prominent Jewish thinkers. The editor is...

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Irving Howe

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1977. ISBN 978-0380008872 The Best of Sholem Aleichem. Edited with Ruth R. Wisse. Washington: New Republic Books, 1979. ISBN 0915220482 How We Lived:...

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Hedy Epstein

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professor Ruth Wisse to speak at Stanford. "While her audience ate Challah bread and drank champagne for the Kiddush", wrote The Stanford Daily, Wisse placed...

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Harvey Mansfield

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Cornel West and Michael Sandel (arguing for affirmative action) with Ruth Wisse and himself (arguing against affirmative action). The debate attracted...

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Avi Chai Foundation

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Taub (Trustee Emeritus, died 2011) Dr. Avital Darmon George Rohr Dr. Ruth Wisse Alan R. Feld, Senior Managing Director of Sanford Bernstein’s private...

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List of Canadian Jews

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Abraham de Sola (1825–1882), professor of Semitic languages and literature Ruth Wisse (1936– ), professor of Yiddish literature Howard Adelman CM (1938– ),...

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Chernivtsi

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musicologist Sydir Vorobkevych (1836–1903) Ukrainian composer and writer Ruth Wisse, professor of literature Mariya Yaremchuk (born 1993), Ukrainian singer...

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Jewish Funds for Justice

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board chair was Kahn and its first executive director was Lois Roisman. Ruth Wisse argues that the Jewish Fund for Justice is one of a number of left-of-center...

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Freedom Flotilla II

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without permission," he said. Harvard University literature professor Ruth Wisse condemned the flotilla as a "kill-the-Jews flotilla", stating that its...

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Christa Whitney

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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 Ruth Wisse...

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Jewish Policy Center

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domestic. Center fellows include Norman Podhoretz, Michael Medved and Ruth Wisse. The Center has sponsored many forums around the country billed as "Liberal...

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List of Harvard College undergraduate organizations

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by Rabbi Hirschy and Mrs. Elkie Zarchi in 1997. According to Professor Ruth Wisse, its success is due to the personality and energy of Rabbi Zarchi. The...

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