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Books in Review
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Advertisements for Himself (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Chutzpah, by Alan M. Dershowitz
- Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz





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The Art of the Possible? (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
On Modern Jewish Politics, by Ezra Mendelsohn
- On Modern Jewish Politics by Ezra Mendelsohn

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Back to Uganda (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
His Brother's Keeper, by Yossi Beilin
- His Brother's Keeper by Yossi Beilin

Books in Review
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Bearing False Witness (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
The Longest War, by Jacobo Timerman
- The Longest War by Jacobo Timerman

Bellow's GiftRuth R. Wisse
A Memoir

The Best of Sholem Aleichem (1979)Irving Howe, Ruth Wisse, and Sholem Aleichem
1 Review

Articles and Observations
Between PassoversRuth R. Wisse


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By Their Own Hands (5 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
At His Side, by A.N. Pirozhkova
- At His Side by A.N. Pirozhkova
- Jews in Russian Literature: After the October Revolution by Efraim Sicher
- Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990 by Susan Tumarkin Goodman
- Arrested Voices by Vitaly Shentalinsky
- The Bones of Berdichev by John Garrard and Carol Garrard



Books in Review
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At Ease (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
A Certain People, by Charles E. Silberman
- A Certain People by Charles E. Silberman


Books in Review
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Fairy Tale (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
King of the Jews, by Leslie Epstein
- King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein


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Found in America (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
I Keep Recalling, by Jacob Glatstein
- I Keep Recalling by Jacob Glatstein
- Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn by Richard J. Fein and Yankev Glatshteyn




The I.L. Peretz Reader (1990)Ruth Wisse and I.L. Peretz
1 Review

If I Am Not for Myself... (1992)Ruth R. Wisse
The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
3 Reviews

Books
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In Nazi Newark (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth


Spring Books Issue
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The Individual from the Ashes (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
Literature or Life, by Jorge Semprun
- Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun
- The Book and the Sword by David Weiss Halivni

Articles
Israel & the IntellectualsRuth R. Wisse
A Failure of Nerve?


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The Jew from Prague (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
The Nightmare of Reason, by Ernst Pawel
- The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel

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Jewish Dreams (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
The Refusers, by Stanley Burnshaw
- The Refusers by Stanley Burnshaw
- The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok


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Jewish Herstory (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
The Jewish Woman in America, by Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel
- The Jewish Woman in America by Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel

Jews and Power (2007)Ruth R. Wisse
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

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The Joy of Limits (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
- Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman




LettersPeter A. Brier, Betty Kroll, and Andrew E. Wessel, ...

LettersBarry Rubin, Robert Loeb, Arnold Jacob Wolf, and Arthur I. Waskow, ...

LettersHenry Rosovsky, Jonathan K. Baum, and Jacob E. Heller, ...

LettersMichel Laferriere, Raoul Roy, and Stephane Venne, ...

LettersBernard L. Albert, Albert L. Weeks, and Matthew Conroy, ...

LettersFrances Stewart, Paul P. Streeten, and P.T. Bauer, ...

LettersPetr Beckmann, Tibor R. Machan, and Donald F. Lundgren, ...

LettersMichael Novak, Philip J. Schiller, and Sidney Hook, ...

LettersErnest W. Lefever, John W. Bowling, and Lev Navrozov, ...

LettersBenno Weiser Varon, Edward Alexander, and Robert J. Loewenberg, ...

LettersCharles William Maynes, Robert Kaplan, and Gerald L. Houseman, ...

LettersEugene V. Rostow, Edward Jay Epstein, and Peter E. Goldman, ...

LettersGordon Tullock, Frederick Allen Asher, and Mark Falcoff, ...

LettersJerome Tobacyk, Orrin Persky, Ruth R. Wisse, and Reed Brody, ...

LettersSamuel Rabinove, Kenneth S. Tollett, and Josiah Lee Auspitz, ...

LettersSteven Shaw, Jacob Neusner, Caleb Rosado, and Thomas Short, ...

LettersJudith S. Antonelli, Solomon Weinberger, and Michael Whitman, ...

LettersStanley L. Nash, Robert Gore Rifkind, and Harold Bernard Reisman, ...

LettersLaurence H. Tribe, Stanley C. Brubaker, and Jean-Francois Revel, ...

LettersGordon Tullock, Melville J. Ulmer, and Edward N. Wolff, ...

LettersBernard Aronson, Elliott Abrams, and Joseph K. Vetter, ...

LettersEdward Alexander, Rosanne Klass, and Robert S. Wistrich, ...




A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988)Ruth R. Wisse
Two Yiddish Poets
2 Reviews


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Lost Illusions (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Commies, by Ronald Radosh
- Commies by Ronald Radosh

Story
Love and LoyaltyRuth R. Wisse

Books in Review
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Matters of Life & Death (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
In the Land of Israel, by Amos Oz
- In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz

Israel Watch
The Might and the RightRuth R. Wisse

The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)Ruth R. Wisse
A Journey Through Language and Culture
3 Reviews







On Ignoring Anti-SemitismRuth R. Wisse
Anti-Semitism in the Arab world is more sincere and more pervasive than it was in pre-H...
The Harvard Israel Review, Fall 2002, pp. 15-23


Peace NotRuth Wisse
Rabin's gamble needs a democratic vote---now


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The Pen & the Sword (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
Truth Is for Strangers, by Efraim Sevela
- Truth Is for Strangers by Efraim Sevela
- A Hero in His Time by Arthur A. Cohen

The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse (1987)Irving Howe, Ruth R. Wisse, and Khone Shmeruk
1 Review

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Philip Roth Then and Now (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth

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Photography as Elegy (2 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
Image Before My Eyes, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, ...
- Image Before My Eyes by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, ...
- An Illustrated Sourcebook on the Holocaust by Zosa Szajkowski




Observations
Portrait of a HeroRuth R. Wisse

Observations
A Purim HomilyRuth R. Wisse

Quebec's JewsRuth R. Wisse and Irwin Cotler
Caught in the Middle


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Recovery (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Drawing Life, by David H. Gelernter
- Drawing Life by David H. Gelernter

Fiction
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Rediscovering Judaism (3 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
Reconciliations, by Elizabeth Klein
- Reconciliations by Elizabeth Klein
- A Season of Delight by Joanne Greenberg
- Kagan's Superfecta by Allen Hoffman

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Return to the Fold? (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
An Orphan in History, by Paul Cowan
- An Orphan in History by Paul Cowan

Fiction
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Saul Bellow's Winter of Discontent (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
The Dean's December, by Saul Bellow
- The Dean's December by Saul Bellow

The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (1971)Ruth R. Wisse
2 Reviews

Books
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Sex, Love & Death (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth
- Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth


Shul DazeRuth Wisse
Can Yiddish be revived, and at what cost?


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The Smell of the Greasepaint, The Roar of the Torah (3 Reviews) Ruth R. Wisse
Jacob Adler: A Life on the Stage, by Lulla Rosenfeld and Jacob Adler
- Jacob Adler: A Life on the Stage by Lulla Rosenfeld and Jacob Adler
- God, Man, and Devil by Nahma Sandrow
- Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World by Henry Sapoznik

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Suburban Kitsch (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife, by Silvia Tennenbaum
- Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife by Silvia Tennenbaum

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The Survivor's Voice (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
From the Old Marketplace, by Joseph Buloff
- From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff

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Testament (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
A Passion for Truth, by Eric Breindel and John Podhoretz
- A Passion for Truth by Eric Breindel and John Podhoretz

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Torn in the USA (Review) Ruth R. Wisse
Jewish American Literature, by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, and Hilene Flanzbaum, ...
- Jewish American Literature by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, and Hilene Flanzbaum, ...

The U.N.'s Jewish ProblemRuth R. Wisse
Anti-Semitism has found a comfortable home on the East River

The UnchosenRuth Wisse
The roots of political anti-Semitism





YiddishRuth R. Wisse
Past, Present, Imperfect


A Symposium
Zionism at 100Daniel Bell, Leon Botstein, and Arthur Hertzberg, ...

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