# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-wisse
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:56:40.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-wisse"
name: "Ruth Wisse"
slug: "ruth-wisse"
description: "Ruth Wisse is a Canadian academic and political activist. She is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University emerita. Wisse is a scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history and culture."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_R._Wisse_receiving_National_Humanities_Medal_from_George_W._Bush_(November_2007).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1936-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.547455295735901
  historical:           7.927110666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "روث ويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruth R. Wisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wisse"
    title: "Ruth Wisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wisse"
    title: "Ruth Wisse"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wisse"
    title: "Ruth Wisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Wisse"
    title: "Ruth Wisse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81"
    title: "Рут Вайс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2177747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump