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Wisse, Ruth R

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Personal name headingWisse, Ruth R.
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Variant(s)Rus̀ Ṿays
Ṿais, Rut
רות װײַס
וייס, רות
Associated countryRomania Ukraine Canada United States
Birth date1936-05-13
Place of birthChernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
Field of activityYiddish literature Jewish ethics
AffiliationHarvard University
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Scholars
Special noteNon-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inHer The schlemiel as modern hero, 1971: t.p. (Ruth R. Wisse) jkt. (assistant prof. of Yiddish literature, Dept. of Jewish Studies, McGill Univ.)
Rabinowitz, S. The best of ... 1979 (a.e.) t.p. (Ruth Wisse) CIP data sheet (b. 1936)
The modern Jewish canon, 2000: CIP t.p. (Ruth R. Wisse) datasheet (b. 13 May 1936)
My quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner = Mayn ḳrig miṭ Hersh Rasseyner, 2022, ©2022: title page (Ruth R. Wisse, translator & writer of introduction)
Wikipedia WWW site, Aug. 16, 2022: (Ruth R. Wisse; רות װײַס [in Yid.] = Rus̀ Ṿays; b. May 13, 1936 in Czernowitz, Romania-present day Ukraine; she is a Canadian scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish history and culture, the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wisse>
Tsiyur mekhushaf, 2023: facing title page verso (רות וייס = Rut Ṿais) page 351 (Ruth R. Wisse [in rom.])