Ruth Wisse
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Culture Ruth Wisse on ‘Jews and Power’
On May 18, Nextbook, the Jewish cultural organization, will present its second annual festival of ideas on the topic of “Jews and Power.” In advance of the event — which will feature, among others, Avivah Zornberg on political rebellion in the Bible, authors Shalom Auslander and Rebecca Goldstein on the authority and revolt of the…
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Culture The Politics of Language
In her new book, ‘Jews and Power’ (Schocken/Nextbook), Harvard Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse discusses Jewish political adaptability through the ages. In the excerpt below, she shows how this flexibility showed itself most immediately via language. Since the inauguration of the Nobel Prizes at the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews have received one-tenth of its…
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