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October 7, 2015

On Jewish Studies and Jews’ Declining Popularity

An interview with a scholar of Yiddish literature.

Ruth Wisse talks with George E. Johnson about her childhood in Eastern Europe and Montreal, her development as a scholar of Yiddish literature and a public intellectual, and the place of Jews and of Jewish studies on American college campuses. On the last point, she comments:

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