I had the pleasure of being taught by Ruth Wisse at McGill University in the late 1980s. Prof. Wisse liked that I paid attention in class and invited me for coffee. Over several hours of friendly ...

In September 1976, Commentary printed the letters of three novelists who had taken umbrage at appraisals of their work, in a previous issue, by a relatively unknown Yiddish professor named Ruth Wisse.

There are Charlottesvilles happening every day in America. This time, they’re everywhere, driven by an explosion of antisemitism. And these Charlottesvilles are happening at Harvard, Columbia, and ...

On May 18, Nextbook, the Jewish cultural organization, will present its second annual festival of ideas on the topic of “Jews and Power.” In advance of the event — which will feature, among others, ...

“Ruth Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature, said she told the faculty yesterday that the reaction to Summers’s remarks on women ‘was the closest thing to a Soviet show trial that we are likely to ...

Is anti-Semitism survey sound? The Anti-Defamation League’s global anti-Semitism survey is potentially misleading, writes Jesse Singal. (N.Y. Magazine) Grading Rabbi Shmuley: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach ...

(JTA) — When documentary photographer Richard Schofield stumbled upon a trove of unidentified prewar photographs in September 2013 in the storage room of the Sugihara House museum in Kaunas, Lithuania ...

These are the words of the liberal intellectual Irving Howe to his conservative counterpart, Ruth Wisse, one of the pre-eminent scholars of Yiddish literature, professor at Harvard University and one ...

Political scientist Wallace Stanley Sayre once said: “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” When it comes to Jewish studies professor Ruth ...

Nextbook’s second annual “festival of ideas” will be held Sunday in New York. This year’s theme is “Jews and Power” and it will feature thinkers like J.J. Goldberg and Ruth Wisse. In preparation, ...