“I bet on him as on a racehorse, certain that he would become the guardian truth-teller of my generation.” (1995)
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About the author: Ruth R. Wisse is a research professor at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund. Her most recent book is No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013, paperback 2015).