Interview | If I Am Not For Myself
October 24, 2024
We are finishing out this month with an interview with Ruth R. Wisse, scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish history and culture and author of If I am Not for Myself.
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If I Am Not For Myself
Essay | If I Am Not For Myself
October 17, 2024
In the aftermath of the October 7 attacks, riots and demonstrations erupted around the world. Nearly all of them were pro-Palestinian. In fact, if any were pro-Israel, they were lost in the media coverage. The epicenter for many of these protests was, unsurprisingly, university campuses where organizers built tent cities,
Review | If I Am Not For Myself
October 10, 2024
Culture abounds with examples of supposed prescience and prophecy, from overreading political analogies in 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale to more trivial examples like the popular meme of The Simpsons predicting the future. However, especially in a post-October 7th world, Ruth R. Wisse’s If I am Not for Myself…: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews is one of
Essay | If I Am Not For Myself
October 3, 2024
The editorial staff of the Reading Wheel Review decided to engage the work of Dr. Ruth Wisse in our October 2024 edition well before the events of October 7, 2023. A year ago we were stunned by the horrific images of these coordinated and premeditated acts of savagery that emerged out of
