Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation Free Audiobook Download by Ruth R. Wisse

Ruth Wisse has written an autobiography about her experiences as a Jew in America. She documents America's fall from grace starting with the Revolutionary War, seeing it as a personal liberation. Her work is worthy of the title "Free As A Jew".

Ruth Wisse was a privileged and well off Jewish girl living in Europe during World War II. One day, there was a knock on her door and it was the Nazis. They were dressed in their SS uniforms and they told her to put on clothes that fit well with their uniform. This can only mean one thing: she's going to be sent away to the concentration camps where she'll be forced to work hard labor. Ruth refuses and instead, she becomes a saboteur for the Jewish people trying to sabotage the Nazi war machine.

The narrator is Ruth Wisse who in 1938 was a Jewish girl living in Germany and Europe. She explains what it was like to be a Jew living under Hitler's rule, her family's stories of survival, and their daily struggles with the Nazi regime while they were once again persecuted by German people. In 1952 the family immigrated to America.

Free as a Jew is an enlightening account of the Jewish experience in America. Moses Mendelssohn, in his seminal essay on race and the Enlightenment, pointed out that the Jews were free to be "free as a Jew." Ruth Wisse has done us all a service by writing this book from her personal perspective of how she sees both her personal experience with American culture and the larger cultural climate.

This is a personal memoir by Ruth Wisse. It tells the story of how Jews became free in Israel and England after they were expelled in 1492. As a Jew, Wisse believes that the Israeli state has deprived Palestinians of their freedom and continues to do so today. There are many references to current events throughout this memoir, which are also covered in more detail in her other books.

In early September 1939, the Wehrmacht invaded Austria. Hitler's troops confiscated Czechoslovakian and Austrian Jews' property and deported them to concentration camps in Germany without warning. By January 1940, the Nazis had stripped nearly a quarter of Czechoslovakia's population of their nationality and brought in some seven million Germans.