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  Emma Lazarus - Definition Beschreibung und Buch-Tipps.
Sie ist vor allem für das 1883 verfasste Gedicht The New Colossus bekannt, das in den Podest der New Yorker Freiheitsstatue eingraviert ist.
Emma Lazarus war das vierte von insgesamt sieben Kindern von Esther und Moses Lazarus, die sephardische Juden waren.
Neben eigenen Gedichten schrieb Emma Lazarus Nachdichtungen italienischer und deutscher Gedichte, namentlich von Goethe und Heine.
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  LAZARUS - LoveToKnow Article on LAZARUS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The personality of Lazarus in John's account, his relation to Martha and Mary, and the possibility that John reconstructed the story by the aid of inferences from the story of the supper in Luke x.
LAZARUS, EMMA (1849-1887), American Jewish poetess, was born in New York.
A sonnet by Emma Lazarus is engraved on a memorial tablet on the colossal Bartholdi statue of Liberty, New York.
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 Emma Lazarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City.
Lazarus was the fourth of seven children of Esther and Moses Lazarus.
Lazarus' latent Judaism was aroused after reading the George Eliot novel Daniel Deronda, and this was further strengthened by the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s.
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 Lazarus, Emma on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emotion and the Jewish historical poems of Emma Lazarus.
Savage Daughters: Emma Lazarus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Spagnoletto.
Emma Lipshultz, 11, left, and her sister, Hannah Lipshultz, 17, of Miami, Florida, lift weights as part of their exercise routines.
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 Jewish Women's Archive - Rsearch
Letter from Emma Lazarus to Philip Cowen, c.1883.
Emma Lazarus Exhibit - Amti-Semitism & the Elite.
Baym, Max I. "Emma Lazarus' approach to Renan in Her Essay 'Renan and the Jews.'".
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 Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus wrote her poem, The New Colossus, about the Statue of Liberty shortly after its dedication in 1886.
Emma Lazarus' famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" may now be indelibly engraved into the collective American memory, but they did not do so overnight.
Lazarus' words, however, turned that idea on its head: the Statue of Liberty would forever on be considered a beacon of welcome for immigrants leaving their mother countries.
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 Lazarus's poem   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus' famous words, "Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" may now be indelibly engraved into the collective American memory, but they did not achieve immortality overnight.
In fact, Lazarus' sonnet to the Statue of Liberty was hardly noticed until after her death, when a patron of the New York arts found it tucked into a small portfolio of poems written in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
As a member of New York's social elite, Emma Lazarus enjoyed a privileged childhood, nurtured by her family to become a respected poet recognized throughout the country for verses about her Jewish heritage.
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 Personality of the Week - Lazarus
Born in New York, in 1849, into a prosperous Sephardi family, her father, Moses Lazarus, was descendant of one of the first Jewish families to settle in New York in 1654.
Emma was educated at home and began writing poetry at a young age, her first collection of poems being published when she was seventeen of age.
Emma Lazarus is best remembered as the author of The New Colossus, the poem engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor of New York.
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 Emma Lazarus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma was also very much persuaded by her Jewish heritage and that influence was portrayed not only in her writing, but also in her actions with the world in which she was living.
Emma reflects Longfellow’s style of writing in her poem "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport" and the two authors’ titles are apparently similar, with one differing word.
It is important to note that Emma was not alive when the statue was erected, but her imagination surpassed her time to therefore, become engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty on a bronze plate.
www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/lazarus.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Emma Lazarus
Lazarus published Songs of a Semite in the same year that she adopted a more public Jewish identity in the realm of American magazines, particularly in the Century.
Lazarus explained her fascination with Heine, born a Jew and later baptized and educated as a Catholic: "A fatal and irreconcilable dualism formed the basis of Heine's nature....
In "Echoes" (probably written in 1880) Lazarus spoke self-consciously about women as poets, describing the boundaries drawn around a woman poet who cannot share with men the common literary subjects of the "dangers, wounds, and triumphs" of war and must therefore transform her own "elf music" and "echoes" into song.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/lazarus.html   (1816 words)

  
 Poet Emma Lazarus - masses yearning to breathe free - I Love America Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lazarus was born in New York City in 1849, and was a published poet and author by age twenty-five.
Emma Lazarus, a poet who was asked to contribute some inspirational lines for the pedestal fund drive, the statue took on a still wider significance.
Emma Lazarus implied in those lines that not only would the immigrants seeking refuge benefit from the asylum offered, but that the United States would also be enriched by receiving the world's "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
www.iloveamericafund.com /asp/emma.asp   (389 words)

  
 Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics and the Challenge of Modernity - Questia Online Library
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was a poet who struggled to translate the Jewish experience into the American idiom for the sake of masses of immigrants seeking to negotiate their passage at the border crossing of American culture.
But Lazarus was fated to be memorialized exclusively for "The New Colossus' her great paean to American largesse, and by Jewish Americans for the few years of poetry, essays, and political activity dedicated to their cause.
Lazarus is increasingly celebrated as the first Jewish American poet to produce poems of significant imagination and lyrical force.
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 JWA - Emma Lazarus - The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus wrote "The New Colossus" in 1883 for an art auction "In Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund." While France had provided the statue itself, American fundraising efforts like these paid for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
In 1903, sixteen years after her death, Lazarus' sonnet was engraved on a plaque and placed in the pedestal as a memorial.
The compassion of the lines "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" welcomes the tired immigrants, but the following image of the "wretched refuse of your teaming shore" hints at the condescension these refugees were to suffer.
www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/lazarus/el9.html   (281 words)

  
 JWA - Emma Lazarus - Introduction
Written in 1883, her celebrated poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty.
One of the first successful Jewish American authors, Lazarus was part of the late nineteenth century New York literary elite, and was celebrated in her day as an important American poet.
Lazarus used these difficult experiences to lend power and depth to her work.
www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/lazarus   (235 words)

  
 Miriam's Cup: Biography of Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was born in 1849 in New York City, the fourth of seven children of Esther and Moses Lazarus.
In this verse, Lazarus contrasts the Statue of Liberty with the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, a venerable warrior.
Lazarus' vision of the United States as a haven for the refugees of Europe and Russia was the inspiration for the poem, in which America is depicted as the golden land of hope and opportunity for the oppressed.
www.miriamscup.com /LazarusBiog.htm   (817 words)

  
 Jewish Heroes in America   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus: A Poetess And Helper Of lmmigrants
The sonnet, written in 1883, is engraved on a memorial plaque that was affixed to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903.
In her writings, Lazarus set forth her ideas and plans for the rebirth of Jewish life by a national and cultural revival in the United States and in the Holy Land.
www.fau.edu /library/brody40.htm   (508 words)

  
 Jewish Exponent: Emma Lazarus@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus, who began writing poems as a young girl in New York City,
Emma was born in 1849 to a wealthy family in Manhattan.
Emma's father published some of her poems when she was only 17...
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 LAZARUS, EMINA - LoveToKnow Article on LAZARUS, EMINA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LAZARITESLAZARUS, H. Lazzarone, a name now often applied generally to beggars, is an Italian term, particularly used of the poorest class of Neapolitans, who, without any fixed abode, live by odd jobs and fishing, but chiefly by begging.
About the same time the canons regular of St Victor handed over to the congregation the priory of St Lazarus (formerly a lazar-house) in Paris, whence the name of Lazarites or Lazarists.
Within a few years they had acquired another house in Paris and set up other establishments throughout France; missions were also sent to Italy (1638), Tunis (1643), Algiers and Ireland (1646).
97.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAZARUS_EMINA.htm   (1310 words)

  
 Emma Lazarus by Chandrika Chowdhry
Emma Lazarus, a nineteenth century American poet, is best remembered for her sonnet, "The New Colossus," whose words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
However, as observed through modern perspective, Lazarus is seen as a person writing from the outside, a person set apart from the people she sought to guide and aide, a defender of the Jews who is hardly one of them.
Lazarus choice of the title is an allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, a giant bronze statue of the Sun God Helios that had overlooked the Greek City's harbor.
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 Emma Lazarus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus' interest in Jewish problems was awakened by George Eliot's novel, Daniel Deronda, with its call for a Jewish national revival, and was reinforced by the Russian pogroms of 1881-82.
Her essays in the Century Magazine (1882) in reply to anti-Semitic attacks praised her fellow Jews as pioneers of progress and expressed her joy in belonging to a people that was the victim of massacres rather than their perpetrator.
Emma Lazarus' next important work, dedicated to the memory of George Eliot, was The Dance to Death, a verse tragedy about the burning of the Jews of Nordhausen in Thuringia during the Black Death.
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 EMMA LAZARUS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus (July_22, 1849 – November_19, 1887) was an American poet born in New_York_City.
She is best known for writing ''The_New_Colossus'', a sonnet written on 2_November 1883 that was engraved on a bronze tablet and put inside the base of the Statue_of_Liberty in 1903.
Lazarus' latent Judaism was aroused after reading the George_Eliot novel ''Daniel_Deronda'', and this was further strengthened by the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s.
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 Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was educated at home, and her tutors made her aware of what now might be called the diversity of cultures, including her own.
Emma Lazarus corresponded with old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who had written a very similar poem, titled "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport." Longfellow only briefly mentions the synagogue, but it is a similar scene--of old memories in a place now abandoned and silent.
One cannot end a discussion of Emma Lazarus without mentioning her most famous lines, the sonnet of which part is engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
www.phy6.org /outreach/Jewish/Lazarus.htm   (1897 words)

  
 The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine The Century Co. New York Vol. 36 (14 New Series), Number 6, October 1888   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With Emma Lazarus, however, this somber streak has a deeper root; something of birth and temperament is in it - the stamp and heritage of a race born to suffer.
Emma Lazarus was a true woman, too distinctly feminine to wish to be exceptional or to stand alone and apart, even by virtue of superiority.
To be born a Jewess was a distinction for Emma Lazarus, and she in turn conferred distinction upon her race.
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 statue of liberty poem provided by legallanguage.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emma Lazarus, the poetess, is probably best known for her poem associated with the Statue of Liberty.
Emma Lazarus was born to Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus in New York City on July 22, 1849.
Emma grew up in a prominent fourth generation Jewish family, one of the oldest in New York City.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ms Roth-Young's book is divided into two sections, the first consisting of a biography of Emma Lazarus the second consisting of a selection of her letters discovered and published for the first time by the author.
The "myth" sees Emma Lazarus as a reclusive spinster who discovered her Jewish roots in the early 1880 and changed from a late-Victorian poet with traditional late romantic themes to an ardent poet of Judaism.
This book is a good introduction to Emma Lazarus who, I think, deserves the status Ms Roth-Young thinks she already has as something of an American icon due to her association with the Statue of Liberty.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0827606184?v=glance   (1124 words)

  
 JWA - Emma Lazarus - Introduction
Written in 1883, her celebrated poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on a plaque in the Statue of Liberty.
One of the first successful Jewish American authors, Lazarus was part of the late nineteenth century New York literary elite, and was celebrated in her day as an important American poet.
Lazarus used these difficult experiences to lend power and depth to her work.
jwa.org /exhibits/wov/lazarus   (230 words)

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