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100 1  Wisse, Ruth R.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Free as a Jew :|ba personal memoir of national self-
       liberation /|cby Ruth R. Wisse. 
246 30 Personal memoir of national self-liberation 
264  1 New York :|bWicked Son,|c[2021] 
300    359 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    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. 
600 10 Wisse, Ruth R. 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|vBiography. 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|vPersonal narratives. 
650  0 Judaism and politics. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Personal narratives.|2lcgft