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Emma Lazarus



Lazarus, Emma (1849–87), U.S. poet best known for the sonnet, “The New Colossus,” engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Much of her work is based on Jewish culture, such as the poems Songs of a Semite (1882).



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