
Ruth R. Wisse
Ruth Wisse is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. Wisse is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.
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Books

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
1986
ISBN 9780814318485
If I Am Not for Myself-
1992
ISBN 9780029354346