Emma Lazarus

<b>Winner of the National Jewish Book Award <p/></b>Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty but her remarkable story has remained a mystery until now. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity--as a feminist a Zionist and a trailblazing Jewish-American writer. Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as an activist and a prophet of the world we all inhabit today. As a stunning rebuke to fear xenophobia and isolationism Lazarus's life and work are more relevant now than ever before.