She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with hera feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish American writer before thse categories even existed.
Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. Emma Lazarus's reputation rests on one poem, "The New Colossus," affixed to the base of the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters Series) and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters Series) Paperback – April 25, “Emma Lazarus’s ‘passionate, ardent life’ is laid out sumptuously in Esther Schor’s evocative.
Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the , Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity. Born into a wealthy Sephardic family in , Lazarus published her first volume of verse at seventeen and gained entree into New York's elite literary circles.
To claim, as Esther Schor does, that Emma Lazarus invented the role of the American Jewish writer is perhaps the overstate the case. Oh deem not dead that martial fire, Say not the mystic flame is spent! Sep 05, Pages Buy. Lists with This Book. Lang rated it it was amazing Jan 14,
Although she once referred to her family as "outlaw" Jews, she felt a deep attachment to Jewish history and peoplehood. Her compassion for the downtrodden Jews of Eastern Europerefugees whose lives had little in common with her ownhelped redefine the meaning of America itself.
In this groundbreaking biography, Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as a poet, an activist, and a prophet of the world we all inhabit todaya world that she helped to invent. Part of the Jewish Encounter series Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her-a feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish American writer before thse categories even existed.
Her compassion for the downtrodden Jews of Eastern Europe-refugees whose lives had little in common with her own-helped redefine the meaning of America itself. In this groundbreaking biography, Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as a poet, an activist, and a prophet of the world we all inhabit today-a world that she helped to invent. In describing Emma Lazarus and her circle, Schor tells the story of American Jewry in the nineteenth century, paints a portrait of literary New York in one of its heydays, explicates many beautiful and long-neglected poems, and instills in us a canny affection for a subject who is forceful and sometimes overbearing but also brilliant and compassionate.
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