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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

In the following essay, Wagenknecht comments on Lazarus's life, poetic themes, literary influences, and religious attitudes.

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.