She initially declined and then wrote a sonnet commemorating the plight of immigrants. After her return to the United States, she was commissioned to write a poem to help raise funds for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. After the publication of Songs of a Semite, she traveled to England and France and met and befriended poets and writers such as Robert Browning and William Morris. Born in 1849 in New York, Emma Lazarus is perhaps best known for providing the poem adorning the plaque at the bottom of the Empire State. She advocated for Jewish refugees and argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland before the concept of Zionism was in wide circulation. Lazarus was one of the first successful and highly visible Jewish American authors. In the 1880s, she took up the cause-through both poetry and prose-against the persecution of Jews in Russia, publishing a polemical pamphlet The Century (1882) and Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death and Other Poems (1882), one of the first literary works to explore the struggles of Jewish Americans.
Reading George Eliot’s novel Daniel Deronda, with its exploration of Jewish identity, stirred Lazarus to consider her own heritage. Emma Lazarus died in 1887, at the age of 38, a scant four years after The New Colossus was published, and 16 years before it appeared on Lady Liberty. Over the next decade, Lazarus published a second volume of poetry, Admetus and Other Poems (1871) the novel Alide: An Episode in Goethe’s Life (1874) and a play in verse, The Spagnoletto (1876). The book gained the attention of Ralph Waldo Emerson, among others. Born in 1849 to Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus, she grew up around New Yorks vibrant. Her father privately printed her first work in 1866 and the next year, her first collection, Poems and Translations (1867), appeared from a commercial press. Emma Lazarus was the fourth child in a wealthy family of seven children. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was publishing translations of German poems by the 1860s.
If the monument did not have a formal dedication, the yearlisted reflects the date of installation.Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. The DEDICATED field refers to the most recent dedication, most often, butnot necessarily the original dedication date. Please note, the NAME field includes a primary designation as well as alternate namingsoften in common or popular usage. ON THE OCCASION OF THE / AMERICAN JEWISH TERCENTENARY /-/ THIS FOUNDATION STONE IS THE GIFT OF THE / STATE OF ISRAEL / I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!" /-/ PRESENTED BY THE / FEDERATION OF JEWISH WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS, INC. THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE / SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME. "KEEP ANCIENT LANDS, YOUR STORIED POMP!" CRIES SHE / WITH SILENT LIPS, "GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, / YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE. Emma published continually throughout the 1870s and received great critical acclaim in some of the influential literary and social circles of the day. HERE AT OUR SEA-WASHED, SUNSET GATES SHALL STAND / A MIGHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH, WHOSE FLAME / IS THE IMPRISONED LIGHTNING, AND HER NAME / MOTHER OF EXILES, FROM HER BEACON-HAND / GLOWS WORLD-WIDE WELCOME HER MILD EYES COMMAND / THE AIR-BRIDGED HARBOR THAT TWIN CITIES FRAME. NOT LIKE THE BRAZEN GIANT OF GREEK FAME, / WITH CONQUERING LIMBS ASTRIDE FROM LAND TO LAND.
Inscription: A TRIBUTE TO / EMMA LAZARUS / POET-PATRIOT /-/ AUTHOR OF THE NEW COLOSSUS / THE SONNET INSCRIBED ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY /-/ THE NEW COLOSSUS.Donor: Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, Inc.
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