Emma LAZARUS

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Emma Lazarus: A Poetess And Helper Of lmmigrants by Seymour "Sy" Brody Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." is part of "TheNew Colossus," a sonnet written by Emma Lazarus that expresses herbelief in the United States as the haven of Europe's masses yearningto breathe the fresh air of democracy. The sonnet, written in 1883, isengraved on a memorial plaque that was affixed to the pedestal of theStatue of Liberty in 1903. Emma Lazarus was bom on July 22, 1849, in New York City. She was thedaughter of Esther and Nathan Lazarus, Sephardic Jews, who werewealthy and devoted to the family. Emma Lazarus was educated byprivate tutors. In her early life she was very precocious. Shecomposed many poems and, in 1867, in her teen years, she had a volumeof poems, titled Poems and Translations, published. She continued to write poems and essays that attracted the attentionof Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading American poet and essayist. Heinvited her to spend a week at his home in Concord, Massachusetts.They had a life-long correspondence. She also corresponded with HenryWadsworth Longfellow. Lazarus had a thorough knowledge of Jewish history and literature. Shekept herself apart from writing about Jewish themes. Even when herPoems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine appeared, she considered him, inher introduction, as being more of a German than a Jew. She stoppedbeing a pleasing litterateur when she read George Eliot's novel DanielDeronda, which called for a national Jewish revival. Her interest inwhat was happening to the Jews of the world was further reinforcedwith the Russian pogroms of 1881-82. Lazarus started to translate the works of Jewish poets. She wroteessays and commentaries attacking and responding to the anti-Semitesof the day. The precociousness of her youth was gone and her maturityas an adult woman came to the fore with her concern for the plight ofthe immigrants and Jews. She became especially interested in the plight of the Russian-Jews asshe encountered them on Wards Island, where they landed from overseas,and where she did volunteer work. In her writings, Lazarus set forthher ideas and plans for the rebirth of Jewish life by a national andcultural revival in the United States and in the Holy Land. In 1883, Lazarus went to Europe, where she was acclaimed for her poemsand writings. She was at the prime of her life and at the peak of herwriting career when she was stricken with cancer. Lazarus was only 38years old when she died. She will always be remembered for her workand concem for the "huddled masses" who came to this country to befree, the interests of Jews, and her poems and essays. Emma Lazarus http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=26b16dd8-9f7a-4864-921b-d31b1dd9856d&tid=9506534&pid=6525 Emma Lazarus http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=489ec586-2144-42bf-a53a-e6bc2ed295f1&tid=9506534&pid=6525

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Titel	Eckhardt-Würz Wambach Eigenbrod Wolfgang Schilling
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Hochgeladen	2014-08-17 18:18:36.0
Einsender	Anke Eckhardt-Würz
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