EMMA LAZARUS

Tikkun | March 1, 2007| | Copyright

EMMA LAZARUS by Esther Schor. Shocken Books, 2006.

CLEVER, LITERARY, and rich, Emma Lazarus was the daughter of a distinguished Sephardic family settled in New York City for four generations. Her fame as the author of the sonnet engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty came decades after her death in 1887, but Gilded Age contemporaries would have read her essays, translations, and poems in journals like Century and The New York Times. She published her first book at age seventeen, gaining the admiration of Emerson; later friendships included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Henry James. ...

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