Emma Lazarus
Lazarus, Emma - 1849–87, American poet and essayist, b. New York City. Her early verse includes Admetus and Other Poems (1871) and The Spagnoletto (1876), a poetic drama. Enraged by the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, she became an impassioned spokeswoman for Judaism, writing many essays and the book of poems, Songs of a Semite (1882), which contains her best work. Her sonnet about the Read More...
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Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics, and the Challenge of Modernity, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Ranen Omer-Sherman. 22 pgs.
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The Hanukkah Anthology (Includes "The Banner of the Jew" and "The Feast of Lights" by Emma Lazarus)
by Philip Goodman. 466 pgs.
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Emma Lazarus" begins on p. 301)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.
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U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays (Chap. 12 "Between Cultures and Politics: The Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the Promulgation of Women's History, 1944-1989")
by Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, Kathryn Kish Sklar. 477 pgs.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Discussion of Emma Lazarus begins on p. 25)
by Michael P. Kramer, Hana Wirth-Nesher. 299 pgs.
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Sephardim in the Americas: Studies in Culture and History (Discussion of Emma Lazarus begins on p. 387)
by Martin A. Cohen, Abraham J. Peck. 504 pgs.
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