A Personal, National, and Biblical Story of Liberation—and Its Relevance for America https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2022/01/a-personal-national-and-biblical-story-of-revelation-and-its-relevance-for-america/

January 18, 2022 | Ruth R. Wisse
About the author: Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.

Discussing her memoir, Free as Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Liberation—first published serially in MosaicRuth R. Wisse describes the progression from slavery, to freedom, to responsibility, and finally to gratitude. This sequence, she explains in conversation with John J. Miller, is the subject of much of the Torah and the Passover Haggadah, and is part of both the modern Jewish experience and the American. In addition, Wisse addresses the sorry state of the universities, and the need for young people to enter them with an already formed moral sense. (Audio, ten minutes.)

Read more on National Review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-387-free-as-a-jew-by-ruth-r-wisse/id959714077?i=1000548108923