BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Emma Lazarus"

 
Not What You Meant?  There are 49 definitions for Lazarus.

Emma Lazarus

Print-Friendly
About 225 pages (67,463 words) in 14 products

"Emma Lazarus" Search Results
Contents:
Biography

Name: Emma Lazarus
Birth Date: July 22, 1849
Death Date: November 19, 1887
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet

summary from source:
Biography of Emmanuel Levinas
791 words, approx. 3 pages
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a major philosopher of the 20th century who attempted to proceed philosophically beyond phenomenology and ontology and to engage in a more immediate and irreducible consideration of the nature and meaning of other...
summary from source:
Biography of Emma Lazarus
410 words, approx. 1 pages
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), American poet, is best known as a spokesperson for the Jewish people. Her faith in America as a haven for all the downtrodden peoples of the world is expressed in her poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Emma Lazarus was...
summary from source:
Biography of Emmanuel Levinas
6,402 words, approx. 21 pages
Emmanuel Lévinas is perhaps best known for his claim that ethics (literally and more accurately, "the ethical"--l'éthique--the domain of human relation rather than that of moral precepts and rules) precedes ontology. As Lévinas...


Quotations
summary from source:
Emma Lazarus Quotes
344 words, approx. 1 pages
Emma Lazarus ( 1849-07-22 – 1887-11-19 ) was an American poet born in New York City. Sourced The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused...


Ask any question on Emma Lazarus and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Lazarus, Emma Summary
2,345 words, approx. 8 pages
Born July 22, 1849 New York, New York Died November 19, 1887 New York, New York Author of the famous poem that appears on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and Jewish rights advocate Emma...
summary from source:
Emma Lazarus Information
735 words, approx. 3 pages
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883, that is now engraved on a bronze plaque on a wall in the base of the Statue of...


News and Journals
summary from source:

Shofar
Emma Lazarus.(Book review)
03/22/2008: 1,000 words, approx. 3 pages
Emma Lazarus, by Esther Schor. New York: Nextbook/Schocken, 2006. 350 pp. $21.95. In this fifth volume from Shocken and Nextbook's Jewish Encounters series, Esther Schor, a poet and English professor at Princeton, provides a compelling interpretation of the life and work of...
summary from source:

The Washington Post
When Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) ...
05/22/2005: 559 words, approx. 2 pages
When Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was asked to compose a poem for a proposed immense statue representing "Liberty Enlightening the World," by the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, she at first rejected the commission, apparently reluctant to compose on assignment. So writes John Hollander in...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
If It\'d5s Showtime!, Is It Giuliani Time?
8/6/2006: 1,154 words, approx. 4 pages
Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course. That is the inner Rudy, parading himself...
summary from source:

The New York Observer
If It's Showtime!, Is It Giuliani Time?
8/6/2006: 1,155 words, approx. 4 pages
Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course. That is the inner Rudy, parading...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Bette Roth Young
12,668 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following excerpt, Young offers a thematic survey of Lazarus's works, beginning with her interest in heroism and culminating in her treatment of Jewish subjects and polemic against anti-Semitism.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Edward Wagenknecht
10,460 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Wagenknecht comments on Lazarus's life, poetic themes, literary influences, and religious attitudes.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Bette Roth Young
9,183 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Young discusses Lazarus's literary response to anti-Semitism and her proposed solution to the problem of Diaspora Jews in An Epistle to the Hebrews.
 


Emma Lazarus Study Pack

Get the complete Emma Lazarus Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 225 pages (at 300 words per page) in 13 products.

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
3 Biographies
2 Encyclopedia Articles
7 Literature Criticism Essays
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Emma Lazarus

Print-Friendly
About 225 pages (67,463 words) in 14 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |