Emma Lazarus
Author: Schor, Esther
ISBN: 9780805211665
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2017
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780805211665
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Sep 2017
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
