
Essay
Despair Not!
Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.


Essay
Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.

Essay
How I came to translate one of the greatest Yiddish stories, a work that illuminates the central debate of Jewish modernity.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Episode 11·The Stories Jews Tell
I.L. Peretz's satire of self-defeating Jewish appeasement is as biting today as it was 130 years ago at publication.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Essay
Haim Sabato infuses tradition into fiction as well as any Yiddish great—except he's unencumbered by modern angst.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Read the Wall Street Journal's recent feature on Ruth Wisse.

Essay
Anti-Semitism on American college campuses is rising—and worsening. Where does it come from, and can it be stopped?

Episode 358·The Tikvah Podcast
How to understand the anti-Semitic mobs at Columbia, and universities around the country.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Observations
What I witnessed in my two decades of teaching at Harvard.

Episode 439·The Tikvah Podcast
Paying tribute to a great defender of America, Israel, and the art of argument.

Lesson 7·The New York Intellectuals
She persuasively condemned cultural envy, diaspora flattery, and trendy ideas antithetical to Judaism.

Essay
America's most decorated novelist spent his early years prodding the nation's soul. Then he became its guardian.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Lesson 8·The New York Intellectuals: The First Generation
How to understand the preeminent Yiddish writer of the modern era, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.

Essay
The great newspaperman set an example of the kind of independent thinking the nation could sorely use today.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Lesson 4·The New York Intellectuals
The former Communist sympathizer read and thought his way into becoming the preeminent neoconservative intellectual.

Lesson 6·The New York Intellectuals
Unlike most of his contemporaries, Himmelfarb was primarily interested in the Jews and Jewish issues. What did he see?

-Ruth Wisse

Episode 77·The Tikvah Podcast
How Hannah Arendt’s brilliance distorted her view of the Nazis—and Norman Podhoretz's sensational critique.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Observations
How the documentary unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Episode 7·The Tikvah Podcast
Why generations of powerlessness corrupted the Jews, and how it affects Israel, America, and the Jewish people today.

Observations
The Gavriel Tirosh Affair and the costs of Jewish restraint.

Observations
We Jews are the blue and white in the red, white, and blue.

Lesson 6·Daniel Deronda
Decades before Herzl, George Eliot saw the need for Jews to recover their independence in their ancestral homeland.
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