Ruth Wisse

Ruth R. Wisse
רות װײַס
Wisse receiving the National Medal of Arts
and National Humanities
from President George W. Bush (2007)
Born
Ruth Roskies

(1936-05-13) May 13, 1936
Czernowitz, Romania
(present-day Ukraine)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Historian
  • researcher

  • author
  • translator

Ruth Wisse (/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. Wisse is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.

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