Join Ruth Wisse as she introduces the remarkable personalities and big ideas of the New York Intellectuals

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Professor Wisse analyzes the writers and ideas that defined a European-style intelligentsia dedicated to probing Western culture, Jewish ideas, and American politics. In eight lectures, you will:

Meet Meet Irving Kristol, Saul Bellow, Norman Podhoretz, Cynthia Ozick, and the other fascinating and eclectic Jews who became the guardians of American culture

Dive into the major arguments that changed how 20th-century Americans thought about themselves

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Learn why their ideas about politics, religion, and culture are vital to making sense of America today

“Attention was paid…"

In the late 1930s and 1940s, a host of young writers and critics emerged in New York around the magazines Partisan Review and Commentary. This intellectual community, largely made up of Jewish children of immigrants, was the only European-style intelligentsia ever to form in America. Known as the New York Intellectuals, they eventually became the transmitters of American culture to the nation. In this course, Ruth Wisse, the renowned teacher of Jewish literature and ideas, will take us on a tour of this fascinating group, using a key selection of their writing to track their ideas on politics, religion, and culture, and assess their ultimate legacy in the intellectual history of America and the Jews.

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Meet Ruth Wisse

Ruth Wisse is one of our age’s preeminent teachers and scholars of Jewish literature and ideas. She is currently the Distinguished Senior Fellow at Tikvah and Professor Emerita of Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her books include If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992), The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Literature and Culture (2000), Jews and Power (2007), and No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013). Her writing has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Mosaic, Commentary, and many other publications. Her memoir, Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, was published in 2021.

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