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      A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas

      All share a common setting-the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic-the Jewish confrontation with modernity.

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      A Little Love in Big Manhattan

      Ruth R Wisse

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      Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture

      Ruth R. Wisse

      What makes a great Jewish book? In fact, what makes a book Jewish in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse eloquently fields these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon…

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      No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

      Ruth R. Wisse

      Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking–as well as the brilliance of…

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      No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

      Ruth R. Wisse

      Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking–as well as the brilliance of…

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      Jews and Power

      Ruth R. Wisse

      It is Wisses bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted–not by power but by powerlessness. She argues that in displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, the…

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      Jews and Power

      Ruth R. Wisse

      It is Wisses bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted–not by power but by powerlessness. She argues that in displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, the…

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      I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

      Ruth R. Wisse

      I. L. Peretz (1852-1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse…

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      I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

      Ruth R. Wisse

      I. L. Peretz (1852-1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse…

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      Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

      Ruth R. Wisse

      Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing political discernment…. Its illuminations are likely to be as urgent one hundred years hence as they…

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      Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse

      Wisse is a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies and a fearless public intellectual on issues relating to Jewish society and culture. In this celebratory volume, her colleagues…

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