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...weeks later, however, Gates found himself at a dinner party at the home of Martin Peretz, editor of The New Republic, where he spoke to Yo-Yo Ma ’76—who appears on “Faces of America”—about Ma’s recent trip to China where he visited an ancestral cemetery. The combination of the woman’s letter and Ma’s touching description motivated Gates to move outside his “job description” and engage with the issue of American heritage...
...Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Harvard...
...questions about the books we read, questions about arguments with the books we read, questions about what I said, and arguments with what I said,” said Martin H. Peretz, the longtime editor-in-chief of The New Republic and an occasional lecturer on social studies...
...Keep it always within reach and often within sight. Don’t let any course or discussion of the Middle East proceed except in its presence. And if the need arises, ask why Arabs and Muslims think they deserve odds greater than 640:1.Ruth R. Wisse is Peretz Professor Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature...
...here on campus.”“Some people will start a club so that they can put on shows,” Ingber says. But the duo already had the shows—so why not just start a club? Ingber, a former student in Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse’s Literature 166, “The Comic Tradition in Jewish Culture,” tapped into his professor’s enthusiasm when he asked Wisse to advise HSUCS. “Comedy plays an increasingly important role in American culture...