The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
A Special Video Series
with Dr. Ruth R. Wisse
In Israel, America, and around the world, Jews are facing threats they haven’t had to confront for decades. What is the cause of this rise in anti-Jewish politics? And why are so many liberals and progressives—people who think of themselves as dedicated to fighting hatred and bigotry—so often indifferent to it, or worse, actively supporting it?
In this special four-part lecture series, Tikvah Senior Fellow and master teacher Ruth Wisse carefully examines how liberalism has failed the Jews.
In this series, you’ll learn about:
▪️How and why anti-Semitism has exploded in so many liberal societies.
▪️The role of Israel in the mind of many Western liberals, and why it is the lynchpin for so much anti-Semitic hatred.
▪️The dark side of Holocaust education, and how it has been turned against the Jews.▪️A new way for Jews to conceive of their role and goals in Western political life.
This lecture series was originally sponsored by by Zach Fasman and Andrea Udoff.
Dr. Ruth R. 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.
When you register, we invite you to join the Tikvah Ideas Circle with an annual gift of $360. Members sustain Tikvah's educational work on Jewish and Zionist ideas and receive a suite of benefits, including a free Tikvah Ideas subscription or renewal, and more.
And right now, for a limited time only, we are offering the next 50 people to join the Circle a complimentary copy of Ruth Wisse's book exploring the themes of this series in greater depth: If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews—first published in 1992, and re-issued this year with a brand new introduction.
Tikvah is a 501(c)(3) charity classified as a private operating foundation. If you want to learn more about the Ideas Circle, you can write to Talia Elkin at telkin@tikvah.org. Your gift helps ensure that we can continue our work:
➣ Bringing the greatest Jewish teachers to tens of thousands of students worldwide
➣ Defending Israel’s moral legitimacy with intellectual clarity and unapologetic pride
➣ Shining a light on the poisonous ideas of anti-Semitism—and showing how they threaten not only Jews, but also Western civilization itself
➣ And preparing a new generation of Jews to live with dignity, purpose, and conviction
All course sessions are pre-recorded. You will be emailed (and redirected to) a link with every video in this series upon registration. You can watch them at your own pace, as many times as you like. If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact us at info@tikvah.org.
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