The decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature was a long time coming

Both legendary writers died 400 years ago this week, but only one of them may have had a Jewish background

On the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death, drawing back into the light the talented woman who may have inspired some sonnets and The Merchant of Venice

Howard Jacobson’s clever and entertaining retelling of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ furthers his reputation as one of the finest Jewish writers working today

A new book of cocktail recipes (and more) offers an inspiring way to toast Jacob Adler, the star of Yiddish theater

Shakespeare’s prickly classic gets a timely update in new production

The ADL director says our interview with Shakespeare expert missed the point

Talking about ‘Merchant of Venice’ and the ADL with Barry Edelstein

Stephen Marche on hypocritical criticism of an Israeli theater group

David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge, an assault on liberal values and politics, should be viewed not as a polemic but as a yet-to-be-written play about his usual subjects: scams and hustlers

A pound of flesh, a lion with a thorn in his paw, an all-powerful book—a new collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the universality of the genre

Trying to make sense of Shakespeare’s politics, a complicated web of ideas and contradictions that attracted and repelled some of modern history’s most notorious leaders

Tablet Magazine’s illustrated column imagines a nudist crestfallen over the fact that he can’t dress up for Purim. Help him fulfill his dream with do-it-yourself cut-outs.

In Trials of the Diaspora, Anthony Julius offers an encyclopedic history of English anti-Semitism

Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin inspired fury and adulation