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Biography of author of "The New Colossus"
Jewish Encounters
Schocken
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Featuring: Emma Lazarus
368 pages
ISBN: 0805242163
EAN: 9780805242164
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 thse categories even existed. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until
the 1980, 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.
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