Orthodox Heresies: Ruth Wisse’s Unsentimental Education
review Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation by Ruth Wisse It’s so much easier when one’s adversaries are not only wrong, but stupid, and best of all, bad. The legendary Yiddishist Ruth Wisse’s most recent book, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, offers us no such comfort. Yiddish like a religion Born Ruth Roskies in 1936 in Czernowitz, Romania (currently Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Wisse fled with her parents … [Lees verder]