EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887) and Jewish-American Women's Writing

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887) and Jewish-American Women's Writing</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B>Jewish Women</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISH WOMEN POETS: Imagining Israel, 18"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imagining Israel</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Immigration: Jewish Women Poets</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GRACE AGUILAR "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Grace Aguilar</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AMY LEVY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Amy Levy</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS AND ADRIENNE RICH (1929 )"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus and Adrienne Rich </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Emma Lazarus</B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>(1849-1887 )</B></I><I><B>: </B></I><I><B>Writing as a Jewish Woman in America</B></I></div> <bR> <div>      Jewish writing in English begins with women's poetry, and  Lazarus's work culminates nearly a century of Jewish women's literary explorations.   She remains unknown and unappreciated.  Her vigorous, dramatic poetry is international in scope, deeply conscious of alienation, prejudice, and exile (in both the United States and abroad).  </div> <div>     Lazarus draws on her predecessors to craft her  voice: she reworks the politics of diaspora and lays claim to the role of prophet.  Further,  she works towards the triumphant invigoration of Judaic identity in language that is lush, incisive,  and tactically shrewd.  She  remains the sharpest Jewish critic (and satirist) of Christian anti-Semitism.</div> <bR> <div> Poems from the full span of her career.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>