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Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said that in addition to clearing Summers’ name, the transcript allows for an indictment of the feminists who have criticized his ideas...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said her fellow female professors were doing themselves a disservice by allowing gender politics to silence the open debate Summers had intended to foster...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, the only professor who spoke openly in support of Summers, said that her fellow professors were doing a disservice to themselves by allowing gender politics to silence the open discussion Summers had intended to foster with his remarks last month...
...lost count of how many times my grandmother expresses herself in Polish or Yiddish expecting me to understand. When I don’t, though, and I usually don’t, she is visibly disappointed. And so am I. But my disappointment is laced with frustration towards her, and hers seems laced with indignance that I, her own granddaughter, cannot understand her. When I told her, last year, about the Yiddish class I was taking, she scoffed and asked what good it would do. I would be better off, she told me, if I were to take a class...
...Arab boycott against Israel has been going on for decades and it is simply disgusting that Americans should join the boycott,” said Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse, an opponent of divestment. “Many people want to hold Israel responsible for the aggression against...