The author of Yah Ribbon and his many influences.

The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.

The soul of man is the candle of God.

On the Ninth of Av, Oholah and Oholibah speak.

The perils of forgetting—and misremembering.

“Sicarii II.”

Including the last poem the poet and martyr ever wrote.

Writing Hebrew poetry after Auschwitz, with help from the Jewish liturgy.

Biblical poetry doesn’t conform to 21st-century stereotypes.

Judah Halevi and Yehuda Amichai.

I like Ike, but does Ike like me?

Nissim Black’s Mothaland and Dunash ibn Labrat.

And his longtime collaborator, Hyman Hurwitz.

“A Week Apart.”