Shmuel the Statesman and dark side of the Golden Age.

“The Destruction of Sennacherib.”

Two new books bring Osip Mandelstam to an English-language audience.

Malines.

“How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be?”

Poems from the Sea of Death.

“Ozymandias” is a story not only of Egypt, but of nation after nation throughout history—except one.

A medieval rabbi with “a love of language, dark humor, penchant for astrology, personal bitterness, and dour personality.”

Eugene Nadelman.

A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.

Iossif Ventouras, heir to Athens and Jerusalem.

Prejudice “elevated to an idiotic principle.”

David Hofshteyn was executed by Stalin. His poetry now serves as a rallying cry for Ukrainians.

Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold.