#emma lazarus

[seraphinesaintclair]

Emma Lazarus, “Faerie.”

[boppunkgreg]

“White Flag, 2025 (for Jasper Johns and Emma Lazarus)”

GMReed, 2025

24”x36”, oil on canvas

[aqlstar]

Petition for antizionist goyim to leave Emma Lazarus alone please.

(Looking at you, Chappell Roan)

And shame on every single news outlet that reported on it without mentioning the sick irony of twisting Lazarus’s words to call for the destruction of Israel.

[tomorrowusa]

A French member of the European Parliament wants the Statue of Liberty back.

France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said Sunday. "Give us back the Statue of Liberty", centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.  "We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" he told cheering supporters. "'We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,'" he added. The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York City's harbour on October 28, 1886 for the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence as a gift from the French people to America. It was designed by Frenchman Auguste Bartholdi. 

To correct a possible misunderstanding, the centennial of the US was on 04 July 1876. The statue wasn't completed until 1886.

Certainly the inscription by Emma Lazarus at the base of the statue no longer applies during the Trump presidency.

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 door!

If we have to give the Statue of Liberty back to France, perhaps Russia would replace it with a Statue of Autocracy – modeled after dictator Vladimir Putin himself.

[girlactionfigure]

Emma Lazarus

Born on 1849 in New York City to a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent whose roots extended to the very early days of NYC as a British colonial city.

Lazarus was the poet who wrote in 1883 "The New Colossus" - the famous poem that greets new immigrants to America till this day.

“...Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips.

"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 door!”

With those words, the Statue of Liberty was given life and purpose beyond that of a monument to liberal ideals, becoming a beacon of hope for the refugees seeking freedom from the terror of persecution.

The poem was placed on the Statue of Liberty in 1903 (after her death).

Aside from writing, Lazarus was also involved in charitable work for refugees.

At Ward's Island, she worked as an aide for Jewish immigrants who had been detained by Castle Garden immigration officials.

She was deeply moved by the plight of the Russian Jews she met there and these experiences influenced her writing.

The Jewish themes she had never dealt with before erupted in her work.

Emma Lazarus died November 19, 1887 (aged 38) in New York City, most likely from Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Lazarus was buried in Beth Olam Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Her papers are kept by the American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, and her letters are collected at Columbia University.

Jewish History, Jewish Culture & Spirit

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Posted 5 hours ago 💙

[notaplaceofhonour]

every time an anti-zionist quotes the mother of zionism a zionist gets their wings

[seraphinesaintclair]

Emma Lazarus, “Grief.”

[boppunkgreg]

[ledbiantastic]

I believe in old fashioned American values, like separation of church and state, people are entitled to certain inalienable rights, and 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-tossed to me

I lift my lamp beside the golden door

[evilgrrrlofficial]

emma lazarus by esther schor

[fly-chicken]

Heed the Words of Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "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 door!"

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Statue of Liberty, New York USA by Batistini Gaston on Flickr.

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“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus:

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “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 door!”

David Bromwich parses Lazarus’ message:

Like other late Romantics, she believed in republican freedom and the religion of the heart; they went together naturally and might be known to each other under the name of “sympathy.” … Americans, the poem says, must never forget what it is to be weak and comfortless. For me to know, through the workings of sympathy, that “heroic forms” have passed through a crisis like mine, can be a liberation in itself.

[eretzyisrael]

On June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home in New York Harbor. But did you know that Emma Lazarus, the American poet whose famous words are inscribed on its pedestal, was Jewish?

Lazarus was born in 1849 to a large Sephardic family in New York City. Her ancestors were among the first Jewish immigrants to arrive in New Amsterdam after fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition in 1654.

The celebrated words of Lazarus’s 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus” have greeted countless immigrants and refugees upon their arrival to the United States. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” -Emma Lazarus Contributor:

@jggoltz

Humans of Judaism

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[artofmyart]

Sketchaday #torch

A sketch of the torch held by the Statue of Liberty.