Ruth Wisse
Understanding the Jewish political paradox in 2024.
Sabbath’s Theater in the theater.
Undefined.
The ambivalent secularism of Chaim Grade’s quarrel.
“No one sounds as silly as an atheist.”
And the professors attack the mob’s targets.
The renowned expert on Yiddish literature stops by to talk everything Tevye, Fiddler, Sholem Aleichem, and more.
A simple protagonist and a very, very complicated people.
Lost and found.
In a new lecture series, a master teacher shows the enduring relevance of the great 19th-century novelist’s Daniel Deronda.
It belonged to the family of two distinguished Yiddish scholars.
Like anti-Semitism targets the Jews, the war against America’s “one percent” blames intractable political and economic problems on an entire collectivity.
Ruth Wisse isn’t asking Jews to stop joking; but more than humor, she knows, is required to fend off their (dead-serious) enemies.