What can I do to combat Anti-Semitism? In this question and answer format, Professor Ruth Wisse lays out the history, the language, and the culture of anti-Semitism. The response should be a good offense, showing the dysfunctions that have resulted from anti-Semitism in Muslim societies.
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Jews see themselves as a minority. If everyone functioned like the Jews, it would be a wonderful world. Democracy is modeled after the Jews with self accountability, and a moral code. When a nation has the power to create and be successful, then they must protect themselves from others who want to take it away from them
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In this segment, Harvard Professor, Ruth Wisse discusses the complexities of the current war that is being waged upon the Jewish people in the state of Israel. Professor Wisse expounds on the varied dimensions of this war: its mischaracterization as a conflict between two equally legitimate sides, its manifestation within U.S
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As of 1939 Yiddish was spoken by 10 million people. Professor Ruth Wisse sees Yiddish as a language of the youth, with vitality; inventing Jewish modernity. One of the values of studying Yiddish is to understand the culture of America, much of which stemmed from the rich folk culture of Yiddish. Yiddish stemmed from a society that was isolated from the surrounding cultures
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