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...particular, Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature and comparative literature, is said to be opposed to having a Holocaust chair at all, instead favoring a more general scholar of Jewish history with an interest in the Holocaust...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Holocaust Chair Decision Unlikely Anytime Soon | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...That Jakob survives at all is a miracle. After days of hiding, he is finally driven by hunger to risk his fate by approaching a stranger. "I screamed into the silence the only phrase I knew in more than one language, I screamed it in Polish and German and Yiddish, thumping my fists on my own chest: dirty Jew, dirty Jew, dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A HOST OF DEBUTS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

DIED. LEO ROSTEN, 88, author best known for his works celebrating Jewish culture; in New York City. His definitive reference work, The Joys of Yiddish, published in 1968, introduced readers to colorful and now common terms like schlemiel, schmaltz and chutzpah. A native of Poland, Rosten seasoned his scholarship with humor, which he called "one of the requirements for sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: eleven electives | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

...panelists, a group of Jewish intellectuals and journalists, included Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish literature and of comparative literature at Harvard; Sholom Avineri, professor of political science at Hebrew University; Daniel Pipes, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zionism Panel Held | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

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