Vox Tablet
Vox Tablet
This is Vox Tablet, the weekly podcast of Tablet Magazine, the online Jewish arts and culture magazine that used to be known as Nextbook.org. Our archive of podcasts is available on our site, tabletmag.com. Vox Tablet, hosted by Sara Ivry, varies widely in subject matter and sound -- one week it's ...
Prying Eyes
Eve Sicular is the founder of and drummer for the bands Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, but her new work offers much more than traditional music. It’s called J. Edgar Klezmer – Songs from My Grandmother’s FBI Files. In the show, Eve ...
Mouthful
Tablet’s Gabriel Sanders and his wife, Amelia, thought they’d settled on the optimal bedtime routine for their 10-month-old, Ezra. He’d take a bath, nurse, have a few books read to him, and then fall asleep to the rhythms of a world ...
Announcing
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Prying Eyes
A klezmer musician turns her grandmother’s FBI files into musical theater.
Cheese, Glorious Cheese
A Shavuot-themed visit to a venerated cheese shop in New York's Greenwich Village.
A Mouthful
A father's rumination on lullabies, teeth, and the ineffable.
A Mouthful
A father's rumination on lullabies, teeth, and the ineffable.
The Things We Carry (again)
A conversation with journalist Masha Gessen about her book, Blood Matters, in which she explores the implications of genetic testing and inherited disease for herself and others.
Man Gone Down
The rise and fall of Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow’s great rival
Earth, Wind and Fire
The volcanoes and other geological events behind Exodus.
Sonic Youth
From our archive, a conversation with Israeli rock and klezmer musician Noam Inbar.
In the Beginning...
Sara Ivry talks to writer and This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein about his new story collection, "Ladies and Gentleman, the Bible."
Always Coca-Cola, Not Always Kosher
How Coke got its rabbinic stamp of approval.
Remembrance Day
Memorial politics are fraught everywhere - especially on a hilltop in Rwanda, as Gregory Warner reports.
Bourne Identity
British political columnist Jonathan Freedland on his thrillers, written under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Hot Pursuit
The gripping, improbable, globetrotting story of how Israeli spies caught Adolf Eichmann.
Among the Faithful
An interview with novelist Zoë Heller, author of What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal and now The Believers.
Early Music
Musicologist Edwin Seroussi speaks with reporter Daniel Estrin, in Jerusalem, about the mystical devotional music called "maftirim."
Body Politic
What makes a body Jewish?