Ruth Wisse
Ruth R. Wisse | |
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רות װײַס | |
Wisse receiving the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities from President George W. Bush (2007) | |
| Born | Ruth Roskies May 13, 1936 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | McGill University (BA)
Columbia University (MA) McGill University (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, Researcher, Author, and Translator |
Ruth Wisse (/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) 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.