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Emma Lazarus
  • Published: 15 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780805211665
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $35.00
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Emma Lazarus

National Jewish Book Award

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Paperback
15 Sept 2017
EBook
21 Oct 2008
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The definitive, award-winning biography of the poet whose sonnet "The New Colossus" appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants to their new home. Now in paperback for the first time, with a new foreword by the author.

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.
  • Published: 15 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9780805211665
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Esther Schor

ESTHER SCHOR, a poet and professor of English at Princeton University, is the author of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, Strange Nursery: New and Selected Poems, My Last JDate, and Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The Forward.
portrait photo of Esther Schor

Praise for Emma Lazarus

"Emma Lazarus's 'passionate, ardent life' is laid out sumptuously in Esther Schor's evocative biography. It is unlikely that, for a general audience, it will be surpassed any time in the near future." --Commentary

"A sympathetic and balanced life of Emma Lazarus." --The New York Times Book Review

"Emma Lazarus's 'passionate, ardent life' is laid out sumptuously in Esther Schor's evocative biography. It is unlikely that, for a general audience, it will be surpassed any time in the near future." --Commentary

"A sympathetic and balanced life of Emma Lazarus." --The New York Times Book Review