rudruniversity's martin peretz, professor of yiddish literature and comparative literature emerita. born in romania in 1936, she was four years old when her family emeal. she earned her b.a. from mcgill from columbia, and then back to mcgill for her phd. there she helped found the department of jewish studies before venturing to harvard where she taught until 2014. she's the author of several books, including if i am not for myself the liberal betrayal of --, -- and power and free as a --. a personal memoir of national self liberation. apology. e'online but we have free copies of that memoir for all of youattending in person today or for many of you attending in person today, probably not all of you. she has also co-edited or edited llections of yiddish fiction and poetry and has contributed essays t including national affairs commentary in the wall street journal. the national humanities medal and an honorary degree from university. dr. weiss will speak about -semitism for about 30 minutes, after which she'll be joined on continetti. mr. continetti is the director of domestic polic