Ruth Wisse on anti-Semitism, Jewish Politics, and Yiddish Literature

08/12/2014 1h 48min
Ruth Wisse on anti-Semitism, Jewish Politics, and Yiddish Literature

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Ruth Wisse is Research Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard and a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Tikvah Fund. In this conversation, Kristol and Wisse discuss the politics of anti-Semitism, why Israel is under attack in our universities, and the study of Yiddish literature. Wisse explains the nature of modern anti-Semitism and why it is best understood as a political phenomenon. She also reflects on a lifetime of teaching Yiddish literature, and discusses why we should read its great works.

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