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Ruth R. Wisse is Peretz professor of Yiddish literature and professor of comparative literature...
...story in a new way, with riveting immediacy, through a collection of 29 personal records assembled in Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute and now available for the first time outside Poland, in English translation. Most of the writers of these accounts are unknown. Many of their records, scribbled in Yiddish or, more often, Polish, were found in attics and basements of the ruined city after the war. Some of the stories are unbearable to read. The Diary of Anne Frank was a poignant solo piece for cello. Words to Outlive Us is a work of full orchestral anguish...
...scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Horn is naturally interested in Jewish languages. She explains that even modern secular texts in these languages cannot elude their Biblical associations. In her novel, Horn strives to endow her English prose with this same Biblical force, merging the secular and religious in the story of a modern Job whose life’s obsession—taking snapshots of ancient religious sites—is destroyed during a hurricane...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, on the other hand, lauded Summers for using his free speech to counter was she deemed harmful speech—namely, last year’s divestment petition...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse praised the petition as an important effort to combat hatred...