Ruth Wisse Reflects on Anti-Semitism, the University, and American Society https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2023/02/ruth-wisse-reflects-on-anti-semitism-the-university-and-american-society/

February 6, 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.

In an in-depth discussion with Bari Weiss, drawn from her memoir Free as Jew (originally published in Mosaic), Ruth R. Wisse discusses her own remarkable life, the state of American Jewry today, the decline of America’s universities, the perils of Holocaust memorialization, and her perspectives on feminism, affirmative action, and identity politics. (Video, 62 minutes.)

Read more on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBskyRsGvfk&feature=youtu.be