Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Stories Jews Tell
February 25, 2022 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. By reading literature, one can experience what it’s like to be, say, a king, or a soldier, or a mother, or a stranger, or a tyrant, or for that matter a slave, not to mention […]
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October 8, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. During this year of lockdowns, shuttered businesses, and working from home, people have made time for many new habits and hobbies, from baking bread to reorganizing closets. In this podcast, Jewish literary and political […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse & Hillel Halkin on the Authors Who Created Modern Hebrew Literature
September 9, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse & Hillel Halkin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since 2015, the Israeli writer and translator Hillel Halkin has published a series of ten essays in Mosaic on the seminal Hebrew writers of the 19th and early-20th centuries. They dealt with everyone from […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on What Saul Bellow Saw
February 5, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Born in 1915 to a traditional Jewish family recently arrived from Russia, Saul Bellow was raised in Chicago and soon became “part of a circle of brainy Jewish teenagers who read and debated weighty […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on the Nature and Functions of Anti-Semitism
May 17, 2018 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Why the Jews? Chapter 2: Wilhelm Marr, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Liberalism Chapter 3: The Moral Strut Chapter 4: The Nature of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism Cui bono? Who benefits? Who benefits when Jews are turned into scapegoats for the ills […]
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