Word: yiddishe
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...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
...most part an untapped and sometimes even dangerous scholarly pursuit. Once given the resources it deserves, the field has the potential to facilitate a much-needed pluralism, one that would revolutionize how Muslims understand themselves as well as how others understand Islam. Therefore, to use Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth Wisse’s distinction, it is imperative that the courses not become “congratulatory” but “critical”; the latter is meant in the best sense of the word. So while we are concerned about what events and professors will...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said that the field of Islamic Studies in America has been plagued with problems, and she worries that those same problems could potentially surface at Harvard depending on how the grant is used. She said the danger is that the courses could be “congratulatory rather than critical...
...years and a vast landscape; his illustrations rise to the realm of Chagall-like lyric fantasy. He tells of the earth's last giant, who, exhausted by his unrequited love for the moon, falls asleep and over the centuries becomes a mountain. In a town (Pupickton--from the Yiddish for belly button) built on his belly, the residents live in fear of waking him, until one day rambunctious little Carolinda does so. Sent to placate him, she sings a lullaby that soothes him into eternal sleep, after which her gift fosters a tradition of singing that makes the town famous...
...people sharing their personal thoughts about Rabin and a collective chant of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer. Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. But the atmosphere in the crowded Adams Lower Common quickly changed from elegiac to combative when the panel discussion began. Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse accused Rabin of legitimating terrorism and betraying his voters by negotiating peace with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords. “This made Rabin the first politician in the history of the world who armed his enemy...