Emma Lazarus

ISBN-13: 9780805211665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Esther Schor

Opis

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

The definitive 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 preface by the author.
Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life 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 poet. In this important biography, Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as an activist and a prophet of the world we all inhabit today. Her extraordinary life is a rebuke to fear, xenophobia, and isolationism--a life that is more relevant now than ever before.