Release date: Jan. 11, 2006

Noted Author Wisse to Deliver Emory's Tenenbaum Lecture

Internationally renowned author and scholar Ruth R. Wisse will present a lecture titled, "Yiddish at the Center, English at the Margins" as Emory University's annual Tenenbaum Family Lecture in Judaic Studies at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the Emory campus.

Admission is free. For more information, click here or call 404-727-6301.

Wisse is Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. After earning a Ph.D. in English from McGill University, Wisse came to Yiddish and comparative literature because, as she says, Yiddish literature is "exceptionally revealing, dramatic, original, and important" in understanding the human and the Jewish experience.

In addition to Harvard, she has held academic appointments at McGill and Tel Aviv University and visiting appointments at YIVO Institute, Hebrew University, Stanford University and New York University. She is the author most recently of "The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Literature and Culture," a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Other works include "If I Am Not For Myself...The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews," "I. L. Peretz and The Making of Modern Jewish Culture," "A Little Love in Big Manhattan: Two Yiddish Poets" and "The Schlemiel as Modern Hero," plus several edited volumes of Yiddish prose and poetry in translation.

The Tenenbaum Family Lecture Series, sponsored by Emory's Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, celebrates the family of the late Meyer W. Tenenbaum of Savannah, Ga., a 1931 alumnus of Emory College and a 1932 alumnus of Emory Law School.

Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For nearly two decades Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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