A Tale of Five Blinkens by Ruth R. Wisse From a Yiddish writer to a secretary of state in four generations—and what it means
The Exuberant Joylessness of Philip Roth by Ruth R. Wisse The brilliant and problematic work of a Jewish writer who didn’t want to be one
The Enduring Outrage of Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ by Ruth R. Wisse Fifty-five years later, her book still has the power to shock—and disgust
Saul Bellow the Rain King by Ruth R. Wisse A biography explores the novelist as son, father, and Jew.
Notes Toward an Israeli Jewish Culture by Ruth R. Wisse Tending the buds of a new civic and religious understanding.
The Anti-Semite’s Pointed Finger by Ruth R. Wisse How Jews have been tricked into believing they can cure the hatred of them when the hatred has always existed…
The Shul at Loon Lake by Ruth R. Wisse The singular tale of a singular synagogue—and the lessons it teaches about the Jewish experience in America.
