Ruth Wisse

Ruth R. Wisse
Wisse receiving the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities from President George W. Bush (2007)
Born	Ruth Roskies (1936-05-13) May 13, 1936 (age 88) Czernowitz, Romania (present day Ukraine)
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	McGill University (BA) Columbia University (MA) McGill University (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Historian, Researcher, Author, and Translator

Ruth Wisse (/waɪs/; Yiddish: רות װײַס; née Roskies; born May 13, 1936) is a Canadian academic and is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. She is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture.