ruth wisse Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/ruth-wisse/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Fri, 30 Sep 2022 05:01:36 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism https://www.jwire.com.au/why-social-justice-warriors-cant-deal-with-anti-semitism/ https://www.jwire.com.au/why-social-justice-warriors-cant-deal-with-anti-semitism/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2022 05:01:36 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=141193 Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Writing in Mosaic, she ponders the effect of liberal ideologies espoused by the media and universities that are promoting anti-Semitism and damaging […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/why-social-justice-warriors-cant-deal-with-anti-semitism/feed/ 2 141193 The triumph and tragedy of Jewish self-liberation https://www.jwire.com.au/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-jewish-self-liberation/ https://www.jwire.com.au/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-jewish-self-liberation/#respond Sun, 26 Sep 2021 05:59:58 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=129534 Jonathan S. Tobin: Ruth Wisse’s new memoir tells of the flowering of Jewish literature and of witnessing the miracle of Israel. But she is just as interested in the revival of antisemitism and Jewish indifference or complicity in the war on their own people.

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