Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was an American poet best remembered for "The New Colossus" (1883), the sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
Its lines—Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free—became synonymous with American immigration ideals.
Lazarus was also an early advocate for Jewish refugees and Zionism.
- Statue of LibertyIsland colossus near Manhattan
- Liberty IslandNYC harbor islet
- colossusStatue of immense size
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- poetWriter of verse
Jewish · New York · harbor · inscription · sonnet · torch · freedom · refuge · America · tired · poor · wretched · beacon · pedestal · Ellis Island · welcome · exile · shores
- Authors LC.S. Lewis, Harper Lee, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- American Jewrysynagogues, rabbis, kosher, Yiddish, Hebrew
- American Women WritersEmily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton
- Jewish FiguresMoses, Abraham, David, Solomon, Aaron
- Jewish PoetsRachel, Zelda, Allen Ginsberg
immigration stance
Emma Lazarusnativists
Advocates for limiting foreign arrivals
Thomas Nast · Know-Nothings · Samuel Morse · restrictionists