Creator Bio
Ruth R. Wisse
b. 1936
Romanian-born Ruth R. Wisse grew up in Montreal and taught at McGill University before accepting a position as professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. Known for her strong advocacy for Israel, she is a literary critic, a translator, and an author on a range of Jewish topics.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Schlemiel as Modern Hero
[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…
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If I Am Not for Myself...The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region. […] As I use it, liberalism is a belief in…