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...with Wisse, said the scholar is “one of the most brilliant professors I’ve had.” “She provides opportunities for questions and disagreement that are not always the case at a university like this,” Bertelsmann said. Wisse??s colleagues echoed these words of praise. “She is a distinguished intellectual in her field,” said Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy Shaye J.D. Cohen. Noting a difference in political views, Cohen said that though he doesn’t agree with...
...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,” says Wisse. “Anything...
...racism and anti-Semitism—whether against Semitic Jews, Semitic Christians, Semitic Druzes or Semitic Muslims—is equally impermissible. I am troubled that Dershowitz escaped former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ criticism when he endorsed Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners. And Wisse??s ghastly 1988 description of Palestinian refugees as “people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery” elicited no demand for retraction...
...blog is a mess of Harvard—chaotic, highbrow and low. A place where a former College dean debates the husband of a former Harvard vice president about Ivy League athletics while others speculate elsewhere about the immigration status of Yiddish literature professor Ruth Wisse??s cleaning lady...
...editors: In your report on the March 7th meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) (“Tensions Linger at Closed FAS meeting,” news, Mar. 8), you quote Professor Diana L. Eck to the effect that “Wisse??s remarks ‘don’t make much of an impression on the Faculty’ because of their ‘extreme nature.’” This, in a nutshell, is the tactic of political correctness, never to confront the content of a divergent opinion...