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The Coen brothers offer a surprising take on Jews and Judaism.
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December 2009 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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The singular tale of a singular synagogue—and the lessons it teaches about the Jewish experience in America.
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October 2009 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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Hamas wants to destroy Israel. Israel wants to stop Hamas rockets. Where's the balance?
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March 2009 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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The anti-Israel campaign has hammered away at the spirit of many American Jews. This need not and should not be.
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October 2008 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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A Montreal childhood inscribed a permanently useful approach to memorializing the Jewish past and assuring the Jewish future.
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January 2008 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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Robert Peach interviews Ruth R. Wisse on her new book Jews and Power, modern anti-Semitism, and more.
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Ruth R. Wisse |
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July/August 2007 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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The "cartographer of Hebrew literature" was engaged in much more than a scholarly enterprise.
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June 2007 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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The troubles of Lawrence Summers light up our cultural landscape like a flare. What is a thoughtful young woman to do who doesn't like what she sees?
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April 2005 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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December 2004 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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In standing up to evil, the Jews of Israel have much to teach the world.
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April 2003 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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Many and cunning are the ways to resist acknowledging the resurgent hatred, and what it may portend.
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October 2002 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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From the novelist has come the solution to a family mystery, plus a few other deeply pertinent lessons.
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December 2001 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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July/August 2001 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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November 2000 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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May 1999 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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I never thought I would live to see a Jewish novel of manners.
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December 1998 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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December 1997 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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Two events-one a burial, the other a kind of birth-crystallize the vexing career of a language whose uses ramify even as its speakers dwindle.
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November 1997 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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The November 1996 election and a number of other recent events have offered an opportunity for reassessment among conservatives. At issue is not only the meaning of the election results themselves but the present and future character of a movement which only two years ago seemed to some to be bringing about a "revolution" in American
political life.
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February 1997 |
Robert L. Bartley, Peter L. Berger, Walter Berns, William E Buckley, and Midge Decter |
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Isn't it tiresome in 1994, this role of rebel-hero?
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December 1995 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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To commemorate Commentary's fiftieth anniversary, the editors addressed the following statement and questions to a group of American intellectuals:
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November 1995 |
Elliott Abrams, Joseph Adelson, Robert L. Bartley, Arnold Beichman and William J. Bennett |
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I met Leonard Cohen in 1954 when I was a student in “Great Writings of European literature,” the only undergraduate course at McGill University that satisfied my idea of the intellectual life.
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October 1995 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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On the morning of June 22, 1940 my mother, my elder brother, and I fled the Romanian city of Czernowitz to join my father in Bucharest.
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April 1995 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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Ezra Mendelsohn, who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, approaches the study of modern Jewish history with sober intelligence.
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March 1994 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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Dear B.,
This is about as far away from you as I will ever be.
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October 1992 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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The near-hegemony of liberal attitudes in the North American media ensures that in any election, only one outcome will ever be hailed with enthusiasm. But reactions to the victory of Labor over Likud in the June election in Israel went far beyond the predictable crowing of liberals.
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September 1992 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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With one exception, all Jewish holidays relate to the land of Israel, to ancient festivals, Temple rites, and local victories.
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May 1992 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
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Alan Dershowitz has raised, or lowered, the practice of law to a Hollywood art.
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September 1991 |
Reviewed by Ruth R. Wisse |
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This happened exactly twenty years ago, during Passover 1925.
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March 1991 |
Ruth R. Wisse |
