Emma Lazarus
1849 - 1887
Poet
Personal Information
Born: 1849
Died: 1887
Professional Life
Field of Study: Poet
Awards & Achievements
Achievements: best known for her sonnet The New Colossus which is inscribed on the base of the Stature of Liberty;
After the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, Lazarus became a spokeswoman for Judaism and was an early advocate of a national Jewish homeland in Palestine