Emma Lazarus
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Poetry, Poets, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples
- Curriculum: Women’s History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Lazarus began writing poems as a girl and published volumes of poetry, plays, translations, a novel, and many influential essays in Century magazine and in the American Jewish press. She is best remembered for her sonnet “The New Colossus,” which is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Early Life
On July 22, 1849, Emma Lazarus was born into an American Jewish family that had lived in New York for generations. One of her ancestors was a Sephardic Jew from Portugal who had fled the Spanish Inquisition and emigrated to the...
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