Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
Author: Emma Lazarus
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2002-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 155111285X

The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, “The New Colossus” (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.

Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems

Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems
Author: Emma Lazarus
Publisher: Library of America
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005-04-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1931082774

The first important American Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus is remembered above all for her classic sonnet “The New Colossus,” whose phrases (“Give me your tired, your poor.”) have become part of the American language. In this new selection of Lazarus’s work, John Hollander demonstrates that in her relatively brief life she achieved real poetic mastery in a variety of modes. In early poems like “Phantasies” and “Symphonic Studies,” she explored fluently imagined inner landscapes suggested by the music of Schumann. Later, her deepening interest in Jewish history and culture was expressed in such powerful poems as “1492,” “The New Ezekiel,” and “The Guardian of the Red Disk.” Influenced both by American models, among them her poetic mentor Emerson, and by the poets whose work she translated, including Heinrich Heine and the medieval Hebrew poets Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Judah ha-Levi, she forged a poetic style of high technical accomplishment and moral passion. Long neglected, her work is revealed in this volume as an important contribution to American poetry. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
Author: Esther Schor
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0805211667

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable story has remained a mystery until now. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s, Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity—as a feminist, a Zionist, and a trailblazing Jewish-American writer. Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus’s place in history as an activist and a prophet of the world we all inhabit today. As a stunning rebuke to fear, xenophobia, and isolationism, Lazarus's life and work are more relevant now than ever before.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus

The Poems of Emma Lazarus
Author: Emma Lazarus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1889
Genre: Jewish poetry
ISBN:

With biographical sketch by her sister, Josephine Lazarus, originally published in Century magazine, Oct., 1888. cf. Jewish ency. Part of the poems are reprinted from the Century, Lippincott's magazine, the Critic, and the American Hebrew. CONTENTS.- I. Narrative, lyric, and dramatic.- II. Jewish poems: translations.

Emma's Poem

Emma's Poem
Author: Linda Glaser
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547768958

Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...Who wrote these words? And why? In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the Statue, thanks to Emma's poem, slowly came to shape our hearts, defining us as a nation that welcomes and gives refuge to those who come to our shores. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Poetry)

The Poems of Emma Lazarus

The Poems of Emma Lazarus
Author: Emma Lazarus
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

The poems of Emma Lazarus contributed towards shaping the self-image of the United States as well as how the country understands the needs of those who emigrate to the United States. Her themes produced sensitivity and enduring lessons regarding immigrants and their need for dignity. This edition of poems is divided in two volumes, first one being Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic, while second one contains Jewish Poems and Translations. Table of Contents: Volume 1 – Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic Emma Lazzarus, a Biography Epochs Admetus Tannhauser Matins Saint Romualdo Afternoon Phantasies On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron Arabesque Agamemnon's Tomb Sic Semper Liberatoribus! Don Rafael Off Rough Point Mater Amabilis Fog The Elixir Song Spring Longing The South Soring Star A June Night Magnetism August Moon Sunrise A Masque of Venice Autumn Sadness Sonnets Symphonic Studies Long Island Sound Destiny From One Augur to Another The Cranes of Ibycus Critic and Poet St. Michael's Chapel Life and Art Sympathy Youth and Death Age and Death City Visions Influence Restlessness The Spagnoletto Volume 2 – Jewish Poems and Translations The New Year The Crowing of the Red Cock In Exile In Memoriam – Rev. J. J. Lyons The Valley of Baca The Banner of the Jew The Guardian of the Red Disk The New Ezekiel The Choice The World's Justice The Supreme Sacrifice The Feast of Lights Gifts Bar Kochba The Birth of Man Raschi in Pregue The Death of Raschi An Epistle By the Waters of Babylon To Carmen Sylva The Dance to Death Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Medaeval Spain To a Detractor Fragment Stanzas Wine and Grief Moses Ben Esra (About 1100) In the Night From the "Divan" Love Song of Alcharisi Nachum A Translation and Two Imitations Translations from Petrarch In Morte II. – On the Death of Cardinal Translations from Alfred de Musset Notes to "Epistle" of Joshua Ibn Vives of Allorqui