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 LAZARUS, EMINA - LoveToKnow Article on LAZARUS, EMINA
The personality of Lazarus in John's account, his relation to Martha and Mary, and the possibility that John reconstructed the story by the aid of inferences from the story of the supper in Luke x.
20) to the beggar in the parable known as that of "La.zarus and Dives,"1 illustrating the misuse of wealth.
The controversy has given rise to a great mass of literature, discussions of which will be found in the lives of Christ, the biblical encyclopaedias and the commentaries on St John.
http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LA/LAZARUS_EMINA.htm

  
 Emma Lazarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lazarus' latent Judaism was aroused after reading the George Eliot novel Daniel Deronda, and this was further strengthened by the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s.
She is best known for writing The New Colossus, a sonnet written on 2 November 1883 that was engraved on a bronze tablet and put inside the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
She wrote her own original poems and many adaptations of German and Italian poems, notably those of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus

  
 Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus' next important work, dedicated to the memory of George Eliot, was The Dance to Death, a verse tragedy about the burning of the Jews of Nordhausen in Thuringia during the Black Death.
Emma Lazarus' interest in Jewish problems was awakened by George Eliot's novel, Daniel Deronda, with its call for a Jewish national revival, and was reinforced by the Russian pogroms of 1881-82.
LAZARUS, EMMA (1849-1887), U.S. poet, best remembered for her sonnet engraved on the Statue of Liberty
http://www.lastar.org/lazarus.html

  
 Emma Lazarus
Two of Lazarus's sisters, Mary and Annie, published The Poems of Emma Lazarus, I and II posthumously, in 1888.
Lazarus published her next book, Alide: An Episode of Goethe's Life, in 18 74.
In the first, "Was the Earl of Beaconsfield a Representative Jew?" (April 1882), Lazarus offered an ambivalent portrait of Benjamin Disraeli; she defined "representative" as embodying the best as well as the worst of Jewish traits.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lazarus.html

  
 Presence of Mind - Colossal Ode
In Emma Lazarus' poem, the statue is a replacement for the Colossus of Rhodes, "the brazen giant of Greek fame." The great bronze monument to the sun god, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, stood in the harbor of Rhodes.
A fascinating figure and a much more substantial poet than she has been given credit for, Lazarus enjoyed a long correspondence with Emerson, translated Heine and Goethe, and wrote superb sonnets on such subjects as the Long Island Sound and the statue of Venus at the Louvre.
It is, she acknowledges with obvious feeling, and abruptly quotes the best-known lines from Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus," engraved on the statue's pedestal:
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/apr04/presence.html

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters
Ms Roth-Young's book is divided into two sections, the first consisting of a biography of Emma Lazarus the second consisting of a selection of her letters discovered and published for the first time by the author.
This book is a good introduction to Emma Lazarus who, I think, deserves the status Ms Roth-Young thinks she already has as something of an American icon due to her association with the Statue of Liberty.
Young has unearthed more than 100 letters by American poet Emma Lazarus that, tucked into this biographical study, shed new light on her activities and personality.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0827606184?v=glance

  
 Emma Lazarus
It is important to note that Emma was not alive when the statue was erected, but her imagination surpassed her time to therefore, become engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty on a bronze plate.
This is a tale about a King of Thessaly, Admetus and the woman, Alcestis, whom he pursues to become his wife.
The Gods give a decree that someone else must die for the life that they have given back to the King.
http://www.bsu.edu/web/gstrecker/lazarus.htm

  
 Emma Lazarus: Poet of the Statue
Born to Moses and Esther Lazarus in 1849 in New York, Emma Lazarus published Poems and Translations Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen, her first book of poems, at age seventeen.
In 1903 sixteen years after her death, the poem was engraved on a plaque and placed on the pedestal of the Statue.
Her father arranged for her book’s publication after having noticed his daughter’s extraordinary gift as a poet and translator.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/american_poetry/103730

  
 Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: Emma Lazarus
Daughter Emma early displayed literary gifts, and in 1866 her proud father published "for private circulation," Poems and Translations, "written between the ages of fourteen and sixteen." This 207-page volume of thirty "original pieces" and translations from Heine, Dumas, and Victor Hugo, the dutiful daughter dedicated to her father.
By 1882, her "national fervor" aroused, she published a volume of impassioned Jewish poetry and translations from the medieval Hebrew poets Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah ha-Levi, and Moses Ibn Ezra, which she titled Songs of a Semite.
The dedication is "To My Father," Moses Lazarus, who had the volume printed for private circulation in New York in 1866.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/Lazarus.html

  
 Digital History
She called upon Richard Watson Gilder, Emma's editor and friend, to help her immortalize "The New Colossus" by engraving it upon a bronze plaque to be placed in the pedestal of the Statue.
It was not at all certain that we would read her words.
To see the original copy book page containing Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/lazarus.cfm

  
 Emma Lazarus
One cannot end a discussion of Emma Lazarus without mentioning her most famous lines, the sonnet of which part is engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
But there is a second reason for selecting this poem.
However, if you love books, time and money don't count.
http://www.phy6.org/outreach/Jewish/Lazarus.htm

  
 Jewish Women's Archive - Rsearch
The New Colossus from Emma Lazarus' Copy Book.
Cover page for Poems and Translations Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen.
Emma Lazarus Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
http://www.jwa.org/archive/lazarus/elcl.html

  
 statue of liberty poem provided by legallanguage.com
She was well educated and by age 25 was a published poet and author.
" by American poet Emma Lazarus was inscribed in bronze at the base of the statue, enhancing the Statue of Liberty’s image as a symbol of freedom and opportunity.
In 1903, sixteen years after her death, Lazarus' sonnet was engraved on a plaque and placed in the pedestal as a memorial.
http://www.legallanguage.com/poems/statuelibertypoem.html

  
 Emma Lazarus by Chandrika Chowdhry
Lazarus choice of the title is an allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, a giant bronze statue of the Sun God Helios that had overlooked the Greek City's harbor.
The question is, why have her non-Statue works slipped through the cracks; what about the "Jewess?"
However, as observed through modern perspective, Lazarus is seen as a person writing from the outside, a person set apart from the people she sought to guide and aide, a defender of the Jews who is hardly one of them.
http://www.boloji.com/literature/00104.htm

  
 Beatrice.com: "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was one of this nation's first successful Jewish authors, and one-and-a-half lines of this poem have been memorized by virtually every citizen in the last century.
From Selected Poems, part of the Library of America's American Poets Project.
http://www.beatrice.com/archives/001323.html

  
 Commentary Magazine - The World of Emma Lazarus, by H. E. Jacob
...Jacob makes only modest claims and small gestures, and I am not sure that he, any more than I, would separate Emma Lazarus from that weak company of 19th-century American poets who without malice turned their hands to making English poetry a dead language...
...Even if a sympathetic modern writer could fabricate such dialogue, down to the childish stumbling over a difficult word, could he fathom her most secret thoughts, her dreams?-"But Emma had stopped listening...
BY A miscalculation of a century, history has given Emma Lazarus an avuncular biographer who was obviously designed to be her real uncle.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V8I4P109-1.htm

  
 EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887): Writing As a Jewish Woman in America
In three volumes of poetry, she shaped her voice against Christian conver-sionist designs and the Protestant New England literary scene.
Writings spanning her entire career, including some never published in book form.
Lazarus meshed her understanding of Western literary practices with her knowledge of Jewish liturgical traditions.
http://www.jewishvoices.org/id40.htm

  
 Personality of the Week - Lazarus
Emma Lazarus is best remembered as the author of The New Colossus, the poem engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York.
Emma was educated at home and began writing poetry at a young age, her first collection of poems being published when she was seventeen of age.
Born in New York, in 1849, into a prosperous Sephardi family, her father, Moses Lazarus, was descendant of one of the first Jewish families to settle in New York in 1654.
http://www.bh.org.il/names/POW/Lazarus.asp

  
 Lazarus, Emma on Encyclopedia.com
Every Jew a Canny Yankee; Why Emma Lazarus's Contradictions Make Her Important Today; Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems
Emotion and the Jewish historical poems of Emma Lazarus.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/L/LazarusE1m.asp

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty
Amazon.ca: Books: I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty
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Grade 4-6 Emma Lazarus, born to a wealthy New York City family in 1849, led a sheltered life, growing up unaware of the "huddled messes yearning to breathe free" whom she was to immortalize in her sonnet "The New Colossus," an excerpt from which is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525671803

  
 JWA - Emma Lazarus - Introduction
Written in 1883, her celebrated poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty.
Lazarus used these difficult experiences to lend power and depth to her work.
One of the first successful Jewish American authors, Lazarus was part of the late nineteenth century New York literary elite, and was celebrated in her day as an important American poet.
http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/lazarus

  
 Emma Lazarus
Before her death at age 37, Lazarus grew from a sheltered girl writing flowery prose about Classical Antiquity to a sophisticated New York aristocrat troubled by the violent injustices suffered by Jews in Eastern Europe.
Emma Lazarus wrote her poem, The New Colossus, about the Statue of Liberty shortly after its dedication in 1886.
Emma Lazarus' famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" may now be indelibly engraved into the collective American memory, but they did not do so overnight.
http://www.literacyrules.com/WebDesign/110webs/angel/angel.htm

  
 JWA - Emma Lazarus - The New Colossus
As an American author, she felt that ancient lands could keep their old traditions and "storied pomp." At the same time, Lazarus invoked her ancient Greek ideals by transforming the "brazen giant " into a "Mother of Exiles" who retains Greek majesty, beauty and defiance as a new Colossus.
In 1903, sixteen years after her death, Lazarus' sonnet was engraved on a plaque and placed in the pedestal as a memorial.
The famous sonnet echoes many of the conflicting identities and ideals Lazarus dealt with in her own life.
http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/lazarus/el9.html

  
 The My Hero Project - Emma Lazaruse_lazarus
Lazarus’ last book was a series of prose poems entitled, By the Waters of Babylon.
In 1882, Lazarus stared thinking about a poem which would become her most famous, The New Colossus.
"Emma Lazarus would not live to understand the full impact of what she had written.
http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=e_lazarus

  
 Emma Lazarus
During this year her "In Exile," "The Crowing of the Red Cock." and "The Banner of the Jew" were written.
Miss Lazarus was a Jewess, and wrote for "The Century" several very striking essays on topics relating to the condition of her race, notably "Was the Earl of Beaconsfield a Representative Jew?" and "Russian Christianity versus Modern Judaism." She also wrote critical articles on Salvini, Emerson, and others, for the same periodical.
http://www.famousamericans.net/emmalazarus

  
 Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics and the Challenge of Modernity - Questia Online Library
By the late 1870s and 1880s, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others had all praised her translations of Heine as well as her own verse that appeared in Lippincott's and Century.
Emma Lazarus, Jewish American poetics, and the challenge of modernity.
This essay examines the contradictions between modern identity and ancient lineage that animate Lazarus's late body of proto-Zionist poetry and polemics.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001981896

  
 SULAIR: AmLitStudies: Emma Lazarus Correspondence
The book attracted the attention of Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom Lazarus visited in Concord, commencing a life-long correspondence with him.
Emma Lazarus was a poet and essayist whose first work, Poems and Translations (1867) was published when she was just 18 years old.
The 55 letters comprise over 400 holograph pages in which she discusses architecture, music, art and literature and the people of her acquaintance including William Morris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Burne-Jones, Anton Rubenstein, Robert Browning, and Henry James among others.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/emmalazarus.html

  
 Poet Emma Lazarus - masses yearning to breathe free - I Love America Foundation
When she sat down to write, she saw the statue not only as a commanding figure enlightening the world with its torch of liberty, but as the "Mother of Exiles," the woman who welcomed the oppressed to our shores and offered them freedom, dignity, and opportunity
Lazarus was born in New York City in 1849, and was a published poet and author by age twenty-five.
Emma Lazarus, a poet who was asked to contribute some inspirational lines for the pedestal fund drive, the statue took on a still wider significance.
http://www.iloveamericafund.com/asp/emma.asp

  
 Judaism 101 - Emma Lazarus - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
Judaism 101 - Emma Lazarus - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
This first encounter with reviled and persecuted Jews changed Emma’s life.
But Emma Lazarus, the Jewish American poetess was able to provide the statue with a different name, and with a Jewish insight that better captured the spirit of America — that to help was even more important than to enlighten.
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/emmalazarus.htm

  
 05/23/01 - Immigration Myths (contd.): The Statue of Immigration, or Liberty Inviting the World
Realizing that legitimizing symbol might strengthen his cause, he enlisted the potent imagery of the Statue of Liberty and inspiring words of Emma Lazarus's eloquent sonnet, The New Colossus.
It turns out that the tablet was the gift of Georgina Schuyler, a New York philanthropist who was a friend of Emma Lazarus', but who didn't even know about the sonnet until she found it in a bookshop years after Emma Lazarus' death.
Imagine a hypothetical foreign country with immigration problems explaining its policy this way: "We used to have sensible immigration laws, but someone built this damn statue." You'd think they were mad.
http://www.vdare.com/fulford/statue_of_immigration.htm

  
 Broadview Press: Emma Lazarus
“Gregory Eiselein has created an important historical-literary context for Emma Lazarus's writing; this edition will be invaluable in making her work accessible to twenty-first century readers.” - Diane Lichtenstein, Beloit College
This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882).
The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist.
http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooksprintable.asp?BookID=529

  
 Creative Quotations from Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
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 REBOOT
They created meaning in their time and did so, according to historian Jonathan Sarna, by relying upon three assumptions:
At the turn of the last century, for instance, Louis Brandeis, Henrietta Szold, Emma Lazarus and the collective known as the American Hebrews created such groundbreaking works as the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Jewish Publication Society, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Menorah Journal -— remarkable innovations all.
Since we believe every generation has the responsibility to question assumptions about Jewishness and Jewish identity, we take special interest in prior generations who have done just that.
http://www.rebooters.net/historical.html

  
 Jewish Heroes in America
Lazarus started to translate the works of Jewish poets.
The sonnet, written in 1883, is engraved on a memorial plaque that was affixed to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
Lazarus had a thorough knowledge of Jewish history and literature.
http://www.fau.edu/library/brody40.htm

  
 NON-PROFIT CORNER - THE EMMA LAZARUS FUND
Emma Lazarus was the 19th Century Jewish-American poet whose famous words from her poem "The New Colossus" welcoming impoverished immigrants to American shores are on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty.
He is, after all, a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust and knows that for many, the right to immigrate can be a matter of life and death.
The poem, beginning with the famous words "Give me your tired, your poor..." is one of the most famous in American literature and is now synonymous with America's welcoming historical attitude to immigrants.
http://www.visalaw.com/98dec/31dec98.html

  
 Miriam's Cup: Biography of Emma Lazarus
In her writing career, Lazarus published numerous poems, essays, and letters, as well as translations of major collections of poems.
Emma Lazarus died in 1887, 4 years after composing the sonnet, at the age of 38.
Emma Lazarus was born in 1849 in New York City, the fourth of seven children of Esther and Moses Lazarus.
http://www.miriamscup.com/LazarusBiog.htm

  
 Jewish Exponent: Emma Lazarus@ HighBeam Research
Emma's father published some of her poems when she was only 17...
Emma Lazarus, who began writing poems as a young girl in New York City,
Emma was born in 1849 to a wealthy family in Manhattan.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:79378801&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf

  
 Archive Photos: Emma Lazarus@ HighBeam Research
Best known for penning ³The New Colossus² inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, Lazarus was also the author of many verse poems and active in the plight of persecuted Jews in Russia.
American poet Emma Lazarus displays a prominent nose.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:30446799&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf

  
 Emma Lazarus, Sylvia Plath - Emma Lazarus, Sylvia Plath, Men, and other stories
This was the Pedestal Art Loan Exhibition, to which Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and others had donated manuscripts for auction, and for which poet Emma Lazarus wrote "The New Colossus...
Much of the rest of the money needed would be raised by Joseph Pulitzer through his campaign in The New York World for the penny-donations of the poor, but one of the most historic fund-raisers was an upper crust affair with a more literary slant.
Emma Lazarus, Sylvia Plath - Emma Lazarus, Sylvia Plath, Men, and other stories
http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=8/5/1884

  
 THE NEW COLOSSUS (1883)
A poem she wrote to help raise money for the pedestal, and which is carved on that pedestal, captured what the statue came to mean to the millions who migrated to the United States seeking freedom, and who have continued to come unto this day.
But the Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus saw the statue as a beacon to the world.
As many modern scholars have noted, these words have an air of condescension, but the fact is that many native-born Americans and immigrants at the time did see themselves just as Lazarus portrayed them -- wretched, nameless, "tempest-tost." For them Europe meant poverty and persecution, and America meant democracy and opportunity.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/63.htm

  
 Who Was Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus, the author of the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, was born in New York City in 1849.
Upset at what was happening; Lazarus wrote emotional poetry to protest these massacres.
In her poem, The New Colossus, she wanted to bring these victims of religious persecution into the United States and welcome them to their new home.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/h/horjam22/Glesson2.htm

  
 EMMA LAZARUS AND ADRIENNE RICH (1929- )
As Lazarus and Rich turn to the closely-related forms of prophecy, they wrest from the Bible images of female empowerment that do not wholly correspond with “normative” models for Biblical male prophets.
Emma Lazarus and Adrienne Rich : The Prophetic Tradition
Rich, arguably the poet of our time most committed to justice, tzedek, has, like Lazarus, struggled to achieve a Jewish female identity in American literary culture.
http://www.jewishvoices.org/id64.htm

  
 MSN Encarta - Emma Lazarus
Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887), American poet, born in New York City.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574731/Emma_Lazarus.html

  
 Poets' Corner - Emma Lazarus - Selected Works
Poets' Corner - Emma Lazarus - Selected Works
Salute him with free heart and choral voice,
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/lazarus1.html

  
 Spacefem.com: Feminist Of The Day: Emma Lazarus
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From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame."
http://spacefem.com/feministoftheday/viewfem.php?id=172

  
 §13. Emma Lazarus. XIII. Later Essayists. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of ...
Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Cambridge History > Later National Literature, Part II > Later Essayists > Emma Lazarus
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 Vogel (1980) Emma Lazarus
Women and literature; History; 19th century; United States; Lazarus, Emma; Criticism and interpretation
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=101970281&showStat=Ratings

  
 RPO -- Emma Lazarus : The New Colossus
Original text: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, 2 vols.
Lazarus refers to the Colossus of Rhodes by Chares of Lindus, one of the seven wonders of the world, destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C. ] twin cities: evidently, New York and Brooklyn (which was not consolidated with the other boroughs until 1898).
RPO -- Emma Lazarus : The New Colossus
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2540.html

  
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 Resources
This page give excellent information about the excape of the slaves and their journey to liberty through the underground railroad.
The site includes various maps and information about life on plantations, Native Americans etc. The history of Ellis Island and a copy of the poem written by Emma Lazarus.
http://edutel.musenet.org:8042/resources.html

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