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Bernard-Henri Lévy bares his Jewish soul

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, January 11, 2017

Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.

The Genius of Literature

Paul Berman, Tablet, May 16, 2017

Bernard-Henri Lévy draws from the well of late-18th-century French philosopher Chateaubriand for a broad defense of the aesthetics and morals of liberalism.

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Fierce New Testament

Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, November 19, 2021

The French thinker’s latest book offers a global vision in which national pride and universal ideals can powerfully coexist.

The Honor of Israel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, June 27, 2018

Full text of a speech delivered before the Academic College of Netanya, June 18, 2018, upon receiving an Honoris Causa doctorate.

Farewell to Claude Lanzmann

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2018

Like Orpheus, Lanzmann was an untamed poet for whom the verses were steel rails, birch forests, silences, names.

Standing at the Twilight of Democracy

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 05, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn threatens to lead Britain into a ‘Dark Internationale’ hastening the demise of democracy.

The New Jerusalem Is Crumbling

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 21, 2019

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’.

Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, December 03, 2019

Why the filmmaker’s depiction of early-20th-century anti-Semitism in ‘J’accuse’ is, with reservations, ‘important and beautiful’.

The Death of Jean Daniel

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 25, 2020

Bernard-Henri Lévy remembers his friend and mentor, the activist and journalist of the ‘Nouvel Observateur’ and doyen of the French left.

After the Coronavirus, Who Do We Want to Be?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, April 28, 2020

‘It’s a good bet that, for better or for worse, tomorrow’s world will not be the same as yesterday’s’.