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The latest episode of “Conversations with Bill Kristol” features Ruth Wisse, the dean of the study of Jewish literature and distinguished senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund. As it so happens, Professor…
What is the proper relationship between Jews and political power? To what extent should Jews eschew worldly power for the sake of piety? How Machiavellian can Jews allow themselves to be? Two of the Jewish world’s most esteemed…
Lord Acton famously proposed that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In Jews and Power, Ruth Wisse provides an analysis of Jewish history that suggests the exact opposite. Join us at 5:30PM to reconsider…
Recently retired from her position as Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, Professor Wisse is currently Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Fund. Her books on literary subjects include an edition…
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are on the rise. Why has liberalism failed to confront these evil? Join Professor Ruth Wisse for a 4-part series on the liberal betrayal of the Jews.
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are on the rise. Why has liberalism failed to confront these evils? Join Professor Ruth Wisse for a 4-part series on the liberal betrayal of the Jews.
This course examines the ideas and spirit of the new Jewish conservatives—including Leo Strauss, Frank Meyer, Nathan Glazer, Irving Kristol, Ruth Wisse, and others. How did these Jewish thinkers help shape modern America and are their ideas still…
Bringing the Jewish canon of great Jewish stories alive, Ruth Wisse will show us—with her lucid analysis and sharp wit—why these stories are essential to modern Jewish life and politics.
According to the much discussed Pew Survey “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” 42% of respondents name “having a good sense of humor” as essential to a Jewish identity. Even more interesting: this answer, more than any other choice…
This series explores authors as diverse as Yosef Haim Brenner and Jacob Glatstein, S.Y. Agnon and Cynthia Ozick, Sholem Aleichem and Chaim Grade. Students interested in hosting a discussion group on The Stories Jews Tell will receive a free…
This series explores authors as diverse as Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and Isaac Babel, Anna Margolin and I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem and Franz Kafka. Students interested in hosting a discussion group on The Stories Jews Tell will receive a…
This curriculum examines the history and current state of antisemitism in order to better understand and combat anti-Jewish hate as it manifests in our world today. With an analysis of perceptions of Jewish power in society, antisemitism's historic…