Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)
Auteur van Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems
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Emma Lazarus is best remembered for her sonnet "The New Colossus" (1883), which is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Born in New York City, a precocious child of wealthy and cultured parents, she was an avid reader and student. Her first book of rather conventional poetry, Poems and toon meer Translations (1866), was published when she was only 17. Her second, Admetus and Other Poems (1871), was dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had responded positively to her work. Her many translations---Heinrich Heine and Friedrich von Schiller from German, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas (pere) from French, and medieval poetry from Hebrew---attest to her scholarship and facility with languages. Some of her best work, included in Songs of a Semite (1882), arose from her commitment to her Jewish heritage and her response to the persecution of Jews in Europe, especially the Russian pogroms of 1882. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Emma Lazarus
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic (Dover Thrift Editions) (2007) 10 exemplaren
Poems and translations 1 exemplaar
The Spagnoletto 1 exemplaar
Works of Emma Lazarus 1 exemplaar
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 919 exemplaren
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- Emma Lazarus was born to a Jewish family in New York City whose ancestors had emigrated from Portugal in early colonial times. She's best remembered as the author of the 1883 poem, "The New Colossus," which was inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The poem's famous opening line, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . . " continues to influence the way we think about immigration today. One of the first successful Jewish-American authors, Emma Lazarus was part of the late 19th-century New York literary elite. In her later years, she wrote bold, powerful poetry and essays protesting the rise of anti-Semitism. She called for the creation of a Jewish homeland before the term Zionism even had been coined. She also wrote a novel and two plays.
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Poetry selections by Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus wrote in the late 1880's qnd early 1900's on liberty, freedom, and the rights of all peoples. One of her sonnets is afixed to the Statue of Liberty. This is a small collection of her works.
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I was really turned off by Lazarus's racism and anti-Christian anger. She was Jewish and believed the Jewish people were inherently better than any other race. She blames every evil in the world on Christianity, grouping together all who call themselves "Christian," though she conveniently doesn't do the same for Jews. She writes off Jewish people who don't act in accordance to the religion as "not Jewish or Gentile." Since those are the only two categories that exist in Jewish thought, I'm really not sure how that works.… (meer)