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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.4
EAN: 9780805242164
ISBN: 0805242163
Label: Schocken
Manufacturer: Schocken
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: September 05, 2006
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Sales Rank: 537146
Studio: Schocken
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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.
Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980, Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity. Born into a wealthy Sephardic family in 1849, Lazarus published her first volume of verse at seventeen and gained entrée into New York’s elite literary circles. 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 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.
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Rating: - "Give me your tired, your poor,"
Interesting book about activist and poet Emma Lazarus, the lady who wrote the Statue of Liberty poem. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Rating: - worthy work of an unjustly neglected figure
A worthwhile biography by a scholar who blends critical insight with sheer enthusiasm in a very appealing manner. By the late 1870s and 1880s, Browning, Whitman, Henry James, Emerson (the latter two among her many ardent correspondents) and many others had all praised Emma Lazarus's groundbreaking translations of Heine as well as her own verse that appeared in Lippincott's and the Century. But she was fated to be memorialized exclusively for "The New Colossus," her great paean to American largesse, ... Read More
Rating: - Universal Interest
Esther Schor has done us all a great favor by her exploration of a "forgotten" figure in American history.
We all know the poem at the Statue of Liberty - certainly the last lines of it. And yet very few people know who wrote it, or what its historical context was. As is the case with many deeply ingrained elements of culture, this poem is assumed to emerged whole from a member of our citizen community.
We learn here that Emma was a very, very remarkable woman. Long before ... Read More
Rating:  - A Woman I Would Like You to Know
With the words of the title of this review, Esther Schor introduces the reader to Emma Lazarus (1849 -1887)in her newly-published biography of this late-nineteenth Century American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and social activist for newly-arrived immigrants. Schor is Professor of English at Princeton University, a poet in her own right, and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Her biography of Emma Lazarus is part of a series of books called "Jewish Encounters" edited by Jonathan ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.4
EAN: 9780805242164
ISBN: 0805242163
Label: Schocken
Manufacturer: Schocken
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: September 05, 2006
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Sales Rank: 537146
Studio: Schocken