Ruth R. Wisse
Autor von The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture
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Ruth R. Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Bildnachweis: Ruth Wisse receives the National Medal of the Arts, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
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- Wisse, Ruth R.
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- 1936-05-13
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- Romania (birth)
USA (residence) - Geburtsort
- Czernowitz, Romania
- Wohnorte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Ausbildung
- McGill University (Ph.D., 1969)
Columbia University (M.A.) - Berufe
- Yiddish scholar
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- Roskies, David G. (brother)
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- Harvard University (Martin Peretz Professor of Comparative Literature)
McGill University - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- National Humanities Medal (2007)
- Kurzbiographie
- Ruth R. Wisse was born to a Jewish family in Czernowitz, Romania (present-day Ukraine). Her father, a Lithuanian, had gone there to start a rubber factory. He received a medal from the king for his work, and this honor saved the family. They were allowed to leave the country as the Russians advanced in 1940, going to Lisbon as so-called stateless persons. From there they went to Montreal, Canada.
The family spoke Yiddish at home, and Prof. Wisse considers herself a product of the thousand-year-old Yiddish culture that spread from Europe to America in the 19th century. She earned her MA from Columbia University, and her PhD in literature from McGill University in 1969. When she wanted to study Yiddish literature in the late 1950s, there were few choices. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the
"Shlemiel as Hero in Yiddish and American Fiction," which was published in 1971 as her first book.
As a teaching fellow at McGill, she was able to start teaching Yiddish writers. Bit by bit, the classes she introduced led to a curriculum and eventually helped found a Jewish Studies Department. Her book The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and Culture (2000), considered her masterpiece, presents decades of scholarship to the general reader and makes the case for the centrality of Yiddish literature to any understanding of the modern Jewish experience. In addition to her own books, she has edited several anthologies and translated the works of I.L. Peretz and Chaim Grade into English.
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Anyways, this is a situation where her ideas are not organized well for a book. It felt like I was reading her notes after a bad dream. I don’t agree with her on everything, but you can’t not love someone who sticks to their guns so passionately about something you believe in. She’s a polemic and she knows it.
Not gonna lie, I’d pay a lot for a Finklestein vs. Wisse debate. It’d be fucking INSANE!!!… (mehr)