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...have strong faculty support,” said Daniel W. Shoag ’06, senior editor of the Harvard Israel Review, who highlighted the roles of Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse...
...earned him the Nobel Peace Prize—a “clown” (See Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He accused Wiesel of lying because Wiesel said that when he was 18 years old “I read The Critique of Pure Reason…in Yiddish.” Here is Finkelstein’s “gotcha” accusation: “The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish” (The Guardian, July 12, 2000). A fairly unambiguous charge. The only problem is that The Critique of Pure Reason...
...TIME.comix: Do you have memories of the Yiddish or so-called Borsht-Belt theater...
...Eisner: Yes. My father painted scenery in the Yiddish theater. He used to take me to plays. I've always been fascinated by plays. I've always felt that there was something very real about plays. "The Spirit" was originally done with a cinematic approach because I felt that the language at the time was being impacted by cinema and cinematic ideas. [But] I was never really satisfied with it. It was interesting and fun to experiment with but for me live theater is a reality. You understand that I am writing for believability. All my stories start [metaphorically] with...
Former Secretary of Education William Bennett, former CIA Director James Woolsey, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse and defense expert Frank Gaffney urged the crowd to remain supportive of the American occupation of Iraq, despite the news swirling of increasing casualties...