Ruth Wisse (/ waɪs /; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. Wisse is a scholar of …

2014年5月12日 · 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...

Recently retired from her position as Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, Professor Wisse is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow …

2025年1月29日 · Ruth Wisse, professor emerita of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University, stands out as a preeminent scholar of antisemitism and the Jewish diaspora in the Jewish intellectual space. Throughout her career, she has published numerous works dealing with both Judaism and academia.

2024年4月5日 · 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.

Its study has led Professor Wisse from an initial interest in The Schlemiel as Modern Hero to a revised investigation of “the liberal betrayal of the Jews,” which is the subtitle of her latest book If I Am Not for Myself.

Professor Ruth R. Wisse, one of our era’s pioneering scholars of Jewish studies, is a unique figure in the world of American Jewish letters. She bridges the worlds of Yiddish and American culture, of literature and politics, of Israel and the Diaspora.

Professor Ruth R. Wisse 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.

Wisse’s masterpiece is The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture, which presents decades of scholarship to the general reader. It makes the case for the centrality of Yiddish literature to any understanding of the modern Jewish experience.

Ruth Wisse is a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard University.