Tablet Goes to Paris
Why France suddenly matters
June 02, 2024
Albane Simon
Albane Simon
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Monday, June 3
Ten years after bloody Islamist attacks sent thousands of French Jews fleeing to Israel, France feels surprisingly resilient—while American Jews fear what comes next
BY MARCO ROTH
Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and rising parliamentary star Benjamin Haddad sit down with Tablet to talk Islamic separatism, anti-Jewish hatred, rebuilding a Republican left, and whether the center can hold
BY JEREMY STERN
Paris’ most enigmatic aesthete will welcome the Olympic torch to the city
BY ANI WILCENSKI
The annual dinner where the French state meets the Jews
BY MARC WEITZMANN
Delphine Horvilleur on death, empathy, and the new-old antisemitism of the left
BY EMILY BARTON
Tuesday, June 4
Gilles Kepel, France’s greatest expert on Islamist politics, sees French scholarly values and savoir faire as a bulwark against the mediocrity of Judith Butler and the antisemitic replacement theology of the global south
BY ARMIN ROSEN
An object lesson about the rewards and limitations of Jewish assimilation in France
BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ
Julia Kristeva on Céline
BY BLAKE SMITH
Wednesday, June 5
A photo essay on the missing mezuzot of Paris
BY PATRICK ZACHMANN
The surreal odyssey of the Jewish proto-rap star who invented the modern French song
BY JEFF WEISS
Rafael Glucksman sought to follow in the footsteps of his philosopher father Andre as an engaged intellectual. Now he’s the leader of the French Socialist list for the EU Parliament, whose bright political future may depend on abandoning everything his father stood for
BY MARC WEITZMANN
From the editors of Tablet Magazine.
