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Free as a Jew
Ruth R. Wisse
其他書名
A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation
出版
Wicked Son
, 2021-09-21
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Jewish
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Religion / Judaism / Conservative
ISBN
1642939714
9781642939712
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=93M5EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation. They need adults with the confidence to teach their importance. Ruth tried to take on that challenge as dangers to freedom mounted and shifted sides on the political spectrum. At the high point of her teaching at Harvard University, she witnessed the unraveling of standards of honesty and truth until the academy she left was no longer the one she had entered.