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November 1, 2023 | 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.

I doubt there is anyone who has thought with greater clarity, over a longer period of time, about anti-Semitism on college campuses as has Ruth R. Wisse. In fact, much of what we have seen in American universities over the past three weeks was explained in her 2015 Mosaic essay on the subject. Yet even she confesses to being shocked by the intensity of the surge of enthusiasm for the murder of Jews that has broken out at our institutions of higher learning. She discusses the topic with Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen. (Audio, 66 minutes. A transcript is available at the link.)

Read more on What the Hell Is Going On?: https://www.aei.org/podcast/wth-is-going-on-with-the-explosion-of-antisemitism-on-the-left-ruth-wisse-explains/