Ruth Wisse

In this extensive interview with a major conservative figure in contemporary Jewish life I reflect back on Ruth Wisse's ... Read more

Ruth Wisse, woman of letters, translator of the new edition of Chaim Grade's "The Quarrel" from Yiddish

In this week’s episode, an Israeli government minister, the 45th President of the United States, and the contemporary Am... Read more

By reading literature, one can experience what it’s like to be, say, a king, or a soldier, or a mother, or a stranger, o... Read more

Ruth Wisse is the recently retired Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, currently a Di... Read more

Author and academic Ruth Wisse joins JNS editor-in -chief Jonathan Tobin to discuss how to understand anti-Semitism, the... Read more

Bret Stephens interviews Professor Ruth Wisse about her contribution to SAPIR’s second issue, The Allure of Powerlessnes... Read more

During this year of lockdowns, shuttered businesses, and working from home, people have made time for many new habits an... Read more

Since 2015, the Israeli writer and translator Hillel Halkin has published a series of ten essays in Mosaic on the semina... Read more

Born in 1915 to a traditional Jewish family recently arrived from Russia, Saul Bellow was raised in Chicago and soon bec... Read more