Emma Lazarus - National Jewish Book Award

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable story 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 writer. Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus’s place in history as an activist and a prophet of the world we all inhabit today. As a stunning rebuke to fear, xenophobia, and isolationism, Lazarus's life and work are more relevant now than ever before.

Product details

• Authors: Esther Schor
• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780805211665
• ISBN: 978-0-8052-1166-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Jewish Encounters Series; Jewish Encounters; Jewish Encounters Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies