Ruth Wisse, professor of comparative literature at Harvard joins Larry Mantle to discuss her theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted, not by power but by powerlessness. In her new book Jews and Power, Wisse examines how from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords to more recent confrontations between Israel and the Arab world, Jews have often tried to make a virtue out of powerlessness, while their enemies have exaggerated and demonized Jewish power. Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power that is sure to be controversial both inside and outside the Jewish world.
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