Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

By Emma Lazarus

The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite(1882). Her best known poem, "The New Colossus" (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155111285X
• ISBN13: 9781551112855
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"