# Ruth Wisse
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Ruth R. Wisse (pronounced "wice"; born May 13, 1936) is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emeritus. She is a noted scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.
== Background and family ==
Wisse was born to a Jewish family in Czernowitz in what is today Ukraine, but was then part of Romania.
S2, Ep. 53: Coffee Break with Nora Gold
Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Nora Gold.
Dr. Nora Gold is the prize-winning author of six books, as well as the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestigious online literary journal Jewish Fiction, which has published 650 stories neve…
Episode 624 - Interview with Ruth Wisse (Professor of Yiddish & Comparative Literature Emerita - Harvard University)
Originally Recorded May 26th, 2026
About Ruth Wisse: https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/ruth-wisse/
Check out Professor Wisse’s book, If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-I-Am-Not-for-Myself/Ruth-R-Wisse/9798895654583 This is a pub…
The State of Jewish Books with Ruth Wisse and Adam Bellow
Literary scholar Ruth Wisse and publisher Adam Bellow join Rabbi David Wolpe for a lively discussion on American Jewish literature, 50 years on from the year Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse
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Ruth Wisse: Free as a Jew
Highlights:
Prof. Ruth Wisse discusses her life and work, the subject of her memoir Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation (Wicked Son, 2021). She recalls encounters with Leonard Cohen, Itzik Manger and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and she reads excerpts from her book (in Engl…
The Soviet Factory That Built Modern Anti-Zionism | With Izabella Tabarovsky
In 2018, Izabella Tabarovsky walked past a protest on an American campus and recognized the signs. Not the sentiment — the sentences. She called her father in Russian and read them out. His answer: we've heard all of this before.
She grew up in Soviet Siberia, in a Jewish city with no synagogues, …
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