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The Magic Jews

On finding a spiritual community that is higher than high

byMadison Margolin

The Last Jewish Intellectuals

Susan Sontag and George Steiner star in ‘Maestros & Monsters’

byDavid Mikics

Collection

Reflections on October 7

October 7th marked a rupture in time—a moment that made the before and after feel irreconcilable. Israel and the Jewish people now live in the fallout of that day. This collection presents reflections on grief and war by a new generation of Israeli writers, whose work will shape our imagination of the future.

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Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.

Who Are We Now?

Reflections on October 7th

byDorit Rabinyan

Leonid Finberg, the director of the Center Judaica, located in the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv, with a Yiddish typewriter

Jewish Writing During Wartime

A continuing journey through Ukraine takes us to the literary capital of the bloodlands

byEdward Serotta

#MrFAFO Is Real

byLiel Leibovitz

Jewish Writing During Wartime

A continuing journey through Ukraine takes us to the literary capital of the bloodlands

byEdward Serotta

#MrFAFO Is Real

byLiel Leibovitz

‘Carlos’: The Best Political Film of the 21st Century

The Terrorist Who Mistook His Life for a Movie
‘Carlos’ is the most complex and exhaustive film about a phenomenon that has defined the politics of the past half-century
BY MARCO ROTH
The Hollow Men
Olivier Assayas’ filmed essay about the icon of 1970s terrorist chic shows us a man who needs to kill in order to prove he exists
BY DAVID MIKICS
The Terrorist, the State, and the Student
Some abstractions after Olivier Assayas’ ‘Carlos’
BY DAVID SUGARMAN
Sympathy for the Devil
The superstar of old-school terrorism seizes the spotlight in Olivier Assayas’ ‘Carlos’
BY J. HOBERMAN

The Cult of ‘Antizionism’

American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight them, we need to understand the origins of their beliefs in the Soviet academic propaganda apparatus.

byIzabella Tabarovsky

The Return of the Cousins

Despite the proliferation of anti- and post-Zionist rhetoric in Britain, Israel remains a central pillar of Anglo-Jewish identity

byZoe StrimpelandTom Stammers

Leonard Cohen performing at the love-in at Queen's Park, Toronto, 1967

Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park

Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry

byKenneth Sherman

Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park

Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry

byKenneth Sherman

Zionism: The Tablet Guide

The definitive guide to the past, present, and future of modern Judaism’s most fantastical and magnetic idea—and the West’s most explosive political label

byTablet Magazine

The South’s Jewish Proust

byBlake Smith

For me, sometimes to talk about a stereotype, I have to exaggerate, to bring it to the grotesque. This is what evokes a discussion.

—Zoya Cherkassky

Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park

Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry

byKenneth Sherman

The South’s Jewish Proust

byBlake Smith

Zionism: The Tablet Guide

The definitive guide to the past, present, and future of modern Judaism’s most fantastical and magnetic idea—and the West’s most explosive political label

byTablet Magazine

For me, sometimes to talk about a stereotype, I have to exaggerate, to bring it to the grotesque. This is what evokes a discussion.

—Zoya Cherkassky

Zionism: The Tablet Guide

The definitive guide to the past, present, and future of modern Judaism’s most fantastical and magnetic idea—and the West’s most explosive political label

byTablet Magazine

The South’s Jewish Proust

byBlake Smith

For me, sometimes to talk about a stereotype, I have to exaggerate, to bring it to the grotesque. This is what evokes a discussion.

—Zoya Cherkassky

Jean Marc Nattier (French, 1685-1766), ‘Portrait of a Woman,’ 1753

The Moon People: Assimilation and the Jewish Literary Transvestite

A review of Adam Thirlwell’s sumptuous, quasi-feminist time-travel novel, ‘The Future Future’

byMarco Roth

Featured Contributor: Marco Roth

The Art of Humblebrag
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
The Hijacking
A new anti-memoir memoir revisits a critical moment in the history of air piracy while plumbing the false consciousness of American Jews
A Kafka for Our Times
A new completist edition of Kafka’s diaries lures readers into the Kafkaesque experience of seeing the author dissolve into an auto-fictional scrapheap
Rachel Aviv’s Journey to the Ends of Psychiatry
Janet Malcolm’s successor at The New Yorker has a different take on the impossible profession
At Our Absolute Worst
Marco Roth talks to, yells at, and pleads with Joshua Cohen about his novel, ‘Moving Kings’
And more from Tablet’s Book Critic at Large.

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A Dark Thanksgiving

My son had the courage of his convictions about Israel at school. We both paid a price.

byAndrew Fox

The reading of a poem is demanding in a way that listening to a song is not. And it is that difficulty that makes poetry more of a counterculture event than even the most avant-garde song, especially given our increasingly limited attention spans.

—Kenneth Sherman

Also by Andrew Fox

My Science Fiction Rabbi
How the prolific writer Barry N. Malzberg showed me my passion was just Judaism in a spacesuit
The Great Swamp Monster Confluence of 1971
Tracing the tangled, Jewish origins of three iconic comic book characters
Expanding Your Tribe in the New Age of Conformity
Far from the divisive tenets of critical race theory, Americans in reality share an infinite number of commonalities, thanks to the different roles each of us play in our private lives
Godzilla’s Jewish Hollywood Friend
The iconic monster owes much of his American success to the savvy, cigar-smoking producer Henry G. Saperstein