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Schor, Esther H.
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Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Zionists -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Schor, Esther H.
Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Zionists -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Emma Lazarus / Esther Schor.
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Schor, Esther H.
Nextbook : Schocken, c2006.
Call #:
921
L4311s
Subjects
Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Zionists -- United States -- Biography.
Jews -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Jewish encounters.
URL856
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URL856
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ISBN:
9780805242164
0805242163
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 347 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309-328]) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: Emma Lazarus and the Three Anne Franks -- I. 1849-1876 -- Generations -- The Shadow of Victory -- Footsteps in Newport -- Your Professor, My Poet -- Admetus -- Oldport -- A Place in Parnassus -- Thoreau's Compass -- II. 1876-1881 -- In the Studio -- The Woman as She Really Was -- Conundrums -- Awakening -- An Ancient, Well-Remembered Pain -- The Critic's Only Duty -- The Devil Discovered -- Fresh Vitality in Every Direction -- Progress and Poverty -- III. 1882-1883 -- Russian Jewish Horrors -- Shylocks and Spinozas -- The List of Singers -- A Single Thought & a Single Work -- An Army of Jewish Paupers -- The Semite and the Hebrews -- The Poet of the Podolian Ghetto -- Seeds Sown -- IV. 1883-1887 -- The Other Half (as It Were) of Our Little World-Ball -- Mother of Exiles -- Revolution as the Only Hope -- The Inward Dissonance -- The Vacant Chair -- Passing Phantoms -- December Roses -- The Mattress-Grave -- Sibyl Judaica -- But If She Herself Were Here Today... -- Appendix. Texts of the Poems.
Summary:
"This is the pioneering biography of the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whose verse gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but whose extraordinary life has remained a mystery until now."--BOOK JACKET.
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