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  1. Books in Review
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    Advertisements for Himself (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Chutzpah, by Alan M. Dershowitz
    1. Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
    Commentary, September 1991, pp. 54-55
  2. Fiction
    Aharon Appelfeld, Survivor
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, August 1983, pp. 73-76
  3. American Jewish Writing, Act II
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, June 1976, pp. 40-45
  4. American Jews and Israel
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, February 1988, p. 75
  5. The Anxious American Jew
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, September 1978, pp. 47-50
  6. [+]
    The Art of the Possible? (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    On Modern Jewish Politics, by Ezra Mendelsohn
    1. On Modern Jewish Politics by Ezra Mendelsohn
    Commentary, March 1994, pp. 55-57
  7. [+]
    Back to Uganda (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    His Brother's Keeper, by Yossi Beilin
    1. His Brother's Keeper by Yossi Beilin
    Commentary, November 2000, pp. 60-62
  8. Books in Review
    [+]
    Bearing False Witness (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Longest War, by Jacobo Timerman
    1. The Longest War by Jacobo Timerman
    Commentary, March 1983, pp. 74-76
  9. Bellow's Gift
    Ruth R. Wisse
    A Memoir
    Commentary, December 2001, pp. 43-53
  10. The Best of Sholem Aleichem (1979)
    Irving Howe, Ruth Wisse, and Sholem Aleichem
    1 Review
  11. Articles and Observations
    Between Passovers
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, December 1989, pp. 42-47
  12. Blaming Israel
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, February 1984, pp. 29-30
  13. [+]
    By Their Own Hands (5 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    At His Side, by A.N. Pirozhkova
    1. At His Side by A.N. Pirozhkova
    2. Jews in Russian Literature: After the October Revolution by Efraim Sicher
    3. Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990 by Susan Tumarkin Goodman
    4. Arrested Voices by Vitaly Shentalinsky
    5. The Bones of Berdichev by John Garrard and Carol Garrard
    The New Republic, February 3, 1997, pp. 34-42
  14. Articles
    "Dear Ellen"; or, Sexual Correctness at Harvard
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, April 2005, pp. 31-37
  15. The Delegitimation of Israel
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, July 1982, pp. 29-36
  16. Books in Review
    [+]
    At Ease (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    A Certain People, by Charles E. Silberman
    1. A Certain People by Charles E. Silberman
    Commentary, November 1985, pp. 108-113
  17. The Enduring Power of Literature
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Weekly Standard, October 6, 2008, p. 17
  18. Books in Review
    [+]
    Fairy Tale (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    King of the Jews, by Leslie Epstein
    1. King of the Jews by Leslie Epstein
    Commentary, May 1979, pp. 76-77
  19. Forgetting Zion
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, October 2008, pp. 30-35
  20. [+]
    Found in America (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    I Keep Recalling, by Jacob Glatstein
    1. I Keep Recalling by Jacob Glatstein
    2. Selected Poems of Yankev Glatshteyn by Richard J. Fein and Yankev Glatshteyn
    The New Republic, September 18, 1995, pp. 52-53
  21. The Hebrew Imperative
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, June 1990, pp. 34-39
  22. At Home in Jerusalem
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, April 2003, pp. 44-49
  23. How Not to Remember & How Not to Forget
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, January 2008, pp. 37-44
  24. The I.L. Peretz Reader (1990)
    Ruth Wisse and I.L. Peretz
    1 Review
  25. If I Am Not for Myself... (1992)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
    3 Reviews
  26. Books
    [+]
    In Nazi Newark (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
    1. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
    Commentary, December 2004, pp. 65-69
  27. Fiction
    In Praise of Chaim Grade
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, April 1977, pp. 70-73
  28. Spring Books Issue
    [+]
    The Individual from the Ashes (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Literature or Life, by Jorge Semprun
    1. Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun
    2. The Book and the Sword by David Weiss Halivni
    The Weekly Standard, April 21, 1997, pp. 29-34
  29. Articles
    Israel & the Intellectuals
    Ruth R. Wisse
    A Failure of Nerve?
    Commentary, May 1988, pp. 19-25
  30. Israel: A House Divided?
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, September 1987, pp. 33-38
  31. [+]
    The Jew from Prague (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Nightmare of Reason, by Ernst Pawel
    1. The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel
    Commentary, November 1984, pp. 62-64
  32. [+]
    Jewish Dreams (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Refusers, by Stanley Burnshaw
    1. The Refusers by Stanley Burnshaw
    2. The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok
    Commentary, March 1982, pp. 45-48
  33. Jewish Guilt and Israeli Writers
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, January 1989, pp. 25-31
  34. [+]
    Jewish Herstory (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Jewish Woman in America, by Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel
    1. The Jewish Woman in America by Charlotte Baum, Paula Hyman, and Sonya Michel
    Commentary, July 1976, pp. 68-69
  35. Jews and Power (2007)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  36. [+]
    The Joy of Limits (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
    1. Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
    Commentary, December 1998, pp. 67-69
  37. Judaism and American Public Life: A Symposium
    Ruth R. Wisse
    First Things, March 1991, p. 26
  38. The Last Great Yiddish Poet?
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, November 1983, pp. 41-48
  39. Letter to a New Israeli
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, June 1987, pp. 44-49
  40. Letters
    Peter A. Brier, Betty Kroll, and Andrew E. Wessel, ...
    Commentary, September 1976, pp. 4-30
  41. Letters
    Barry Rubin, Robert Loeb, Arnold Jacob Wolf, and Arthur I. Waskow, ...
    Commentary, June 1977, pp. 4-34
  42. Letters
    Henry Rosovsky, Jonathan K. Baum, and Jacob E. Heller, ...
    Commentary, December 1978, pp. 4-22
  43. Letters
    Michel Laferriere, Raoul Roy, and Stephane Venne, ...
    Commentary, January 1978, pp. 4-18
  44. Letters
    Bernard L. Albert, Albert L. Weeks, and Matthew Conroy, ...
    Commentary, November 1978, pp. 4-24
  45. Letters
    Frances Stewart, Paul P. Streeten, and P.T. Bauer, ...
    Commentary, July 1979, pp. 4-24
  46. Letters
    Petr Beckmann, Tibor R. Machan, and Donald F. Lundgren, ...
    Commentary, September 1979, pp. 4-34
  47. Letters
    Michael Novak, Philip J. Schiller, and Sidney Hook, ...
    Commentary, April 1980, pp. 4-30
  48. Letters
    Ernest W. Lefever, John W. Bowling, and Lev Navrozov, ...
    Commentary, February 1980, pp. 4-28
  49. Letters
    Benno Weiser Varon, Edward Alexander, and Robert J. Loewenberg, ...
    Commentary, November 1980, pp. 4-24
  50. Letters
    Charles William Maynes, Robert Kaplan, and Gerald L. Houseman, ...
    Commentary, May 1981, pp. 4-24
  51. Letters
    Eugene V. Rostow, Edward Jay Epstein, and Peter E. Goldman, ...
    Commentary, October 1982, pp. 4-18
  52. Letters
    Gordon Tullock, Frederick Allen Asher, and Mark Falcoff, ...
    Commentary, October 1985, pp. 2-28
  53. Letters
    Jerome Tobacyk, Orrin Persky, Ruth R. Wisse, and Reed Brody, ...
    Commentary, May 1987, pp. 2-16
  54. Letters
    Samuel Rabinove, Kenneth S. Tollett, and Josiah Lee Auspitz, ...
    Commentary, October 1987, pp. 4-22
  55. Letters
    Steven Shaw, Jacob Neusner, Caleb Rosado, and Thomas Short, ...
    Commentary, December 1988, pp. 2-20
  56. Letters
    Judith S. Antonelli, Solomon Weinberger, and Michael Whitman, ...
    Commentary, March 1988, pp. 2-18
  57. Letters
    Stanley L. Nash, Robert Gore Rifkind, and Harold Bernard Reisman, ...
    Commentary, September 1988, pp. 2-18
  58. Letters
    Laurence H. Tribe, Stanley C. Brubaker, and Jean-Francois Revel, ...
    Commentary, May 1989, pp. 2-16
  59. Letters
    Gordon Tullock, Melville J. Ulmer, and Edward N. Wolff, ...
    Commentary, November 1990, pp. 2-16
  60. Letters
    Bernard Aronson, Elliott Abrams, and Joseph K. Vetter, ...
    Commentary, November 1991, pp. 2-16
  61. Letters
    Edward Alexander, Rosanne Klass, and Robert S. Wistrich, ...
    Commentary, January 1993, pp. 2-16
  62. 'The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews": An Exchange
    Ruth Wisse
    The New Republic, April 19, 1993, p. 44
  63. Liberalism & the Jews
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, January 1980, pp. 81-83
  64. A Light Unto the Nations?
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, December 1987, pp. 30-35
  65. A Little Love in Big Manhattan (1988)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Two Yiddish Poets
    2 Reviews
  66. Living With Women's Lib
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, August 1988, pp. 40-45
  67. [+]
    Lost Illusions (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commies, by Ronald Radosh
    1. Commies by Ronald Radosh
    Commentary, July-August 2001, pp. 62-65
  68. Story
    Love and Loyalty
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, October 1992, pp. 40-47
  69. Books in Review
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    Matters of Life & Death (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    In the Land of Israel, by Amos Oz
    1. In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz
    Commentary, April 1984, pp. 68-70
  70. Israel Watch
    The Might and the Right
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, September 1992, pp. 48-49
  71. The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    A Journey Through Language and Culture
    3 Reviews
  72. A Monument to Messianism
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, March 1991, pp. 37-42
  73. The Most Beautiful Woman in Vilna
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, June 1981, pp. 34-38
  74. My Life Without Leonard Cohen
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, October 1995, pp. 27-33
  75. The National Prospect
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, November 1995, pp. 113-114
  76. The New York (Jewish) Intellectuals
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, November 1987, pp. 28-38
  77. On Ignoring Anti-Semitism
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, October 2002, pp. 26-33
  78. On Ignoring Anti-Semitism
    Ruth 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
  79. On the Future of Conservatism
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, February 1997, pp. 41-43
  80. Peace Not
    Ruth Wisse
    Rabin's gamble needs a democratic vote---now
    The New Republic, October 4, 1993, p. 15
  81. Articles
    "Peace Now" & American Jews
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, August 1980, pp. 17-22
  82. [+]
    The Pen & the Sword (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Truth Is for Strangers, by Efraim Sevela
    1. Truth Is for Strangers by Efraim Sevela
    2. A Hero in His Time by Arthur A. Cohen
    Commentary, October 1976, pp. 92-98
  83. The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse (1987)
    Irving Howe, Ruth R. Wisse, and Khone Shmeruk
    1 Review
  84. [+]
    Philip Roth Then and Now (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth
    1. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
    2. Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
    Commentary, September 1981, pp. 56-60
  85. [+]
    Photography as Elegy (2 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Image Before My Eyes, by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, ...
    1. Image Before My Eyes by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, ...
    2. An Illustrated Sourcebook on the Holocaust by Zosa Szajkowski
    Commentary, March 1978, pp. 80-81
  86. Poland Without Jews
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, August 1978, pp. 64-67
  87. Poland's Jewish Ghosts
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, January 1987, pp. 25-33
  88. The Politics of Yiddish
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, July 1985, pp. 29-35
  89. Observations
    Portrait of a Hero
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, March 1981, pp. 53-55
  90. Observations
    A Purim Homily
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, May 1992, p. 53
  91. Quebec's Jews
    Ruth R. Wisse and Irwin Cotler
    Caught in the Middle
    Commentary, September 1977, pp. 55-59
  92. Reading About Jews
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, March 1980, pp. 41-48
  93. [+]
    Recovery (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Drawing Life, by David H. Gelernter
    1. Drawing Life by David H. Gelernter
    Commentary, December 1997, pp. 60-62
  94. Fiction
    [+]
    Rediscovering Judaism (3 Reviews)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Reconciliations, by Elizabeth Klein
    1. Reconciliations by Elizabeth Klein
    2. A Season of Delight by Joanne Greenberg
    3. Kagan's Superfecta by Allen Hoffman
    Commentary, May 1982, pp. 84-87
  95. [+]
    Return to the Fold? (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    An Orphan in History, by Paul Cowan
    1. An Orphan in History by Paul Cowan
    Commentary, February 1983, pp. 70-74
  96. Fiction
    [+]
    Saul Bellow's Winter of Discontent (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Dean's December, by Saul Bellow
    1. The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
    Commentary, April 1982, pp. 71-73
  97. The Schlemiel as Modern Hero (1971)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    2 Reviews
  98. Books
    [+]
    Sex, Love & Death (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth
    1. Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
    Commentary, December 1995, pp. 61-64
  99. A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas (1974)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    1 Review
  100. Shul Daze
    Ruth Wisse
    Can Yiddish be revived, and at what cost?
    The New Republic, May 27, 1996, pp. 16-18
  101. Singer's Paradoxical Progress
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, February 1979, pp. 33-38
  102. [+]
    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
    1. Jacob Adler: A Life on the Stage by Lulla Rosenfeld and Jacob Adler
    2. God, Man, and Devil by Nahma Sandrow
    3. Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World by Henry Sapoznik
    The New Republic, May 1, 2000, pp. 33-37
  103. [+]
    Suburban Kitsch (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife, by Silvia Tennenbaum
    1. Rachel, the Rabbi's Wife by Silvia Tennenbaum
    Commentary, June 1978, pp. 76-77
  104. [+]
    The Survivor's Voice (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    From the Old Marketplace, by Joseph Buloff
    1. From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff
    The New Republic, June 24, 1991, pp. 40-42
  105. [+]
    Testament (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    A Passion for Truth, by Eric Breindel and John Podhoretz
    1. A Passion for Truth by Eric Breindel and John Podhoretz
    Commentary, May 1999, pp. 70-71
  106. [+]
    Torn in the USA (Review)
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Jewish American Literature, by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, and Hilene Flanzbaum, ...
    1. Jewish American Literature by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, and Hilene Flanzbaum, ...
    The New Republic, April 2, 2001, pp. 36-41
  107. The U.N.'s Jewish Problem
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Anti-Semitism has found a comfortable home on the East River
    The Weekly Standard, April 8, 2002, pp. 27-30
  108. The Unchosen
    Ruth Wisse
    The roots of political anti-Semitism
    The New Republic, June 15, 1992, pp. 15-18
  109. War Is No Joke
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Weekly Standard, May 31, 2010, p. 16
  110. War With "Peace"
    Ruth R. Wisse
    The Weekly Standard, November 20, 1995, pp. 28-30
  111. What My Father Knew
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, April 1995, pp. 44-49
  112. Women as Conservative Rabbis?
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, October 1979, pp. 59-64
  113. Yiddish
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Past, Present, Imperfect
    Commentary, November 1997, pp. 32-39
  114. A Yiddish Poet in America
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, July 1980, pp. 35-41
  115. A Symposium
    Zionism at 100
    Daniel Bell, Leon Botstein, and Arthur Hertzberg, ...
    The New Republic, September 8, 1997, pp. 1-48
  116. The 20th Century's Most Successful Ideology
    Ruth R. Wisse
    Commentary, February 1991, pp. 31-35
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