Science and humanism—and Jews and Christians—collide in early modern Europe
New translations of the Hebrew Golden Age poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol reveal a man for our time
A long-lost space age satire about what it means to be a Jew from one of science fiction’s greatest humorists
Peering into, and through, the ghostly new Brooklyn
TO: America FROM: The Jews
Reconsidering the American Jewish icon as a modern master, not a stereotype
Mystic emanations, and a path forward, in democracy’s wake
In an excerpt from ‘Meant To Be,’ the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance remembers growing up on the Lower East Side
In the 1960s, the civil rights activist drew the line with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee when it declared Israel ‘illegal’
Tablet Original Fiction: A Jewish heretic wants to read—literature
‘I thought I knew something about what being Jewish means. Then my wife and I started looking into summer camps for our son.’
What Walt Whitman can tell us about our democracy
Newly translated fiction—a timeless fable about wealth and humility—from the Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, in time for Shavuot
Seventy-seven years to the day after the Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist died, the great chronicler of prewar Europe still has much to tell us
Tablet Original Fiction for Passover, from the master of black humor: Evicted from Teaneck, what exodus awaits?
In middle-century Skokie, a young Jewish boy searches for a stolen Jesus to comfort his bereft Christian girlfriend
Tablet Original Fiction: Called up, and called back, for duty on the front lines of Israel Defense Force’s Northern Command
An affair—‘the pain of creation, yet without the creation’—by the great 20th-century Brazilian writer, from the ‘Complete Stories’
Fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Sukkot, in a new English translation by Jeffrey Saks
A tale of love and vanity by the great 20th-century Brazilian writer, from the new ‘Complete Stories’
Brenda’s brother is in love with another man. What will his minyan think?
Tablet Original Fiction: ‘Ruth had always assumed she’d die a one-man virgin.’
Tablet Original Fiction: Meet Phil the Kosher butcher, non-traditional writing student, counterfactual storyteller, Lothario
An excerpt from Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s new novel, ‘Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate’
A new English translation of fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Lag BaOmer
Tablet original fiction, on Vladimir Nabokov’s 116th birthday
Tablet Original Fiction: a rabbi, a broken soul, and a huge wad of cash
Tablet Original Fiction set in the all-inclusive resorts of the Dominican Republic
Seventy people, speeding into the unknown
A short story by Michael Chabon
