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Ruth R. Wisse is the Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature...
...things is how very nicely they treat me. Everybody has been very civil. There are no people going around the corridors shooting dirty looks at each other or anything. In fact, I teach in the same classroom right after one of the supporters of President Summers [Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse] and we get along very well. Obviously we will speak on opposite sides of the issue...
...most of the night, the hall buzzed with the chatter of curious goyim and a veritable Who’s Who of campus Jewry, including Summers, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, and former Undergraduate Council President Matthew J. Glazer...
...Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, who denounced last February’s first Faculty meeting as a “show trial,” left Cambridge to deliver a pair of speeches at Emory University...
Wisse, the Peretz professor of Yiddish literature, is in Atlanta today and will deliver two speeches at Emory University tomorrow, according to her husband, Leonard Wisse...