Esther Schor

Emma Lazarus

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award The definitive biography of the poet whose sonnet "The New Colossus" appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants to their new home. 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 these categories even existed. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s, 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. Jewish Encounters Series

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Produktdetails

• Jewish Encounters
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 136mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780805242164
• ISBN-10: 0805242163
• Artikelnr.: 21832918

Autorenporträt

Esther Schor

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Emma Lazarus and the Three Anne Franks
I · 1849–1876
Generations
The Shadow of Victory
Footsteps in Newport
Your Professor, My Poet
Admetus
Oldport
A Place in Parnassus
Thoreau’s Compass
I I · 1876–1881
In the Studio
The Woman as She Really Was
Conundrums
Awakening
An Ancient, Well-Remembered Pain
The Critic’s Only Duty
The Devil Discovered
Fresh Vitality in Every Direction
Progress and Poverty
I I I · 1882–1883
Russian Jewish Horrors
Shylocks and Spinozas
The List of Singers
A Single Thought & a Single Work
An Army of Jewish Paupers
The Semite and the Hebrews
The Poet of the Podolian Ghetto
Seeds Sown
IV · 1883–1887
The Other Half (as It Were) of Our Little World-Ball
Mother of Exiles
Revolution as the Only Hope
The Inward Dissonance
The Vacant Chair
Passing Phantoms
December Roses
The Mattress-Grave
Sibyl Judaica
But If She Herself Were Here Today . . .
Appendix: Texts of the Poems
Chronology
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index