Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (New York City, July 22, 1849 - 19 November 1887) was a Jewish American poet and essayist.
Life and workLazarus was born in a wealthy Sefardian-Jewish family. Initially, she wrote strong melancholic poetry, but under the influence of emigrants about pogroms in Ukraine, the tone of her work changed and devoted herself to the defense of the persecuted Jewish people. Because of her concern about these Jewish emigrants, she was called "mother of exiles". She is most famous for her sonnet The New Colossus (1883), with the known line "Give me your tired, your poor," which was put on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1886.
Lazarus traveled Europe twice, first in 1885 and thereafter in 1887. After this last trip, she returned sick and died soon after, probably on Hodgkin's Disease. Bibliography "The New Colossus" on the liberty image Literature and sources
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