Scientist Gertrude Belle Elion’s Nobel Prize in medicine is donated to her alma mater, Hunter College
A little-known Yiddish manuscript upends our idea of the secular saint of human suffering
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death is the latest occasion for social media-propagated callousness and ignorant moral arrogance
Twenty-six years to the day after the death of the great Yiddish-American Nobel Prize winner, the clarity of his moral voice rings ever more true
Leadbelly’s music (‘changed my life’) and Moby Dick (‘makes demands on you’) have been with Dylan since the beginning of his career
The decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature was a long time coming
A new English translation of fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Lag Ba’Omer
Born by his own account of ‘the mud of the Occupation,’ the French author remains haunted, like his compatriots, by memory
The 1939 short story appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation
Predicting which Israelis will win the esteemed award is a national pastime
The renowned writer, who plumbed Jewish identity and became an American master, adds the biggest laurel to his crown
Jewish achievement is easier to celebrate by a seemingly objective measure
Plus study finds higher rates of E. coli in kosher chicken, and more in the news
Shares physics prize with Peter Higgs for the pair’s Higgs particle discovery
Devaluing peace awards has never been so fun
A Jewish look at Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
The Nobel laureate and neurobiologist was 103
The D-student translator behind the Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
