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April 25, 2024 | 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.

Long before October 7, the anti-Israel trends on college campuses, and within the American left more broadly, were already apparent to those paying attention. One of the very first to note the warning signs was Ruth R. Wisse, who had been commenting about this topic for years when she wrote her essay “Anti-Semitism Goes to School” in Mosaic—a work that now seems almost prophetic. She discusses this essay and much else in conversation with the Israeli journalist Matan Hasidim. (Video, 58 minutes.)

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