Years ago, I read a short synopsis of the life of Emma Lazarus, the Jewish American poet best known for the poem “New Colossus,” which appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty. In addition to ...

In defense of that new public charge rule, Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli has offered his own version of the famous Emma Lazarus poem on the base of the ...

There is something much deeper to “Thanksgivukkah” than sweet potato latkes. It is an opportunity to celebrate the blessing of our dual identity as Americans and Jews. In 1883, the ...

Do you know those words? I suspect you recall, as I did, two lines a little more than halfway through the poem: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The poem ...

Editpr’s Note: A version of this piece was published by the Forward in 2019; we’re revisiting it on the occasion of Emma Lazarus’ birthday. Lazarus was born on July 22, 1849. This tale features ...

These oft-quoted lines were written by a young woman named Emma Lazarus in 1883, as part of a longer poem called “The New Colossus.” Inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, the verse has ...

The issue of emotion has long been used to trivialize Lazarus's literary achievements. A systems-theory approach to emotion corrects this view by distinguishing her verse from other forms of ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden ...