Ruth Wisse

Ruth Wisse is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. Wisse is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture. Wisse is an outspoken Zionist. Some have called her political views neoconservative. In 2026, The Wall Street Journal called Wisse the "Iron Lady of the American Jewish Right".