Speakers: Ruth Wisse, Josh Glancy

“Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing political discernment.” High praise from Cynthia Ozick for Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation. Harvard Professor Emerita Ruth Wisse escaped the Nazis as a child and devoted her life as a female Jewish refugee to pioneering women’s equality in the academy and amplifying the literary voice of her decimated people. In her controversial new memoir she argues that the American Jewish establishment is refusing to exercise its power in the defence of Jews being assaulted on streets today and that Harvard is infested with anti-Judaism, as well as shedding light on her relationships with Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer. An unmissable online encounter with the leading scholar and author as she approaches her 86th birthday.