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My Favorite Anti-Semite
An occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work.


He was the greatest and strangest of all ball players, a fierce competitor, and a hateful person
BY ARI HOFFMAN


Why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew
BY WESLEY YANG


Kaddish for the late poet with a history of bigotry, from a poet with a feeling for jazz
BY JAKE MARMER


The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem
BY ELISA NEW


The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature
BY HUNTER C. EDEN


Regardless of whether or not we should forgive our favorite artists for these sorts of opinions, one thing is clear: We definitely want to.
BY ALEXANDER ACIMAN
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A.B. YEHOSHUA, 1936-2022
Articles from the archives on the late Israeli master
Review of ‘The Tunnel' (2020)
Review of ‘The Retrospective' (2013)
Yehoshua Disparages Diaspora Jews (2012)
Review of ‘Friendly Fire' (2008)
A Q & A with David B. Green (2006)
On View
Moses Mendelssohn: We Dreamed of Nothing but Enlightenment
April 14 - September 11, 2022
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Marcel Proust: Du côté de la mère
April 14 - August 28, 2022
Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, Paris
Featured Contributor: Marco Roth
Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ gratefully embraces the medicalization of suicide
Sheila Heti’s Abstract Love for an Imperfect Universe
The novelist’s latest, ‘Pure Colour,’ is a rare, playful synthesis of the universal and the intimate
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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Bloomsday
100 Years of Ulysses


The most obvious reason Joyce made his modern-day Odysseus a (thrice-baptized) Jew is that whole wandering thing. But Leopold Bloom’s Jewishness is most compelling when it is incidental. An anti-Semitic Feinian who wears an eye patch (it is the “Cyclops” chapter) demands to know what Bloom’s “nation” is. “Ireland,” he replies. “I was born here. Ireland.” As another character later says, “And after all, why can’t a jew love his country like the next fellow?” —Marc Tracy


Is Ulysses Overrated?
All but one chapter—and not the one you think.
Who thinks it is overrated?
Ron Rosenbaum, Rosenbug, Rosenrosen, Rosencrantz.
Where can this essay arguing all but one chapter is overrate be read?
Here, in Slate magazine.


Watch a scene from Ulysses read in Yiddish by Alyssa Quint and David Mandelbaum, from Tablet’s 2013 Bloomsday celebration.