Talk:Emma Lazarus
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[edit] the bronze tablet
Actually, a half-hour of Googling has left me completely baffled as to just where the bronze tablet is located.
It's clear from http://www.nps.gov/stli/plaque/ that the tablet contains the whole sonnet, not just the closing lines. It says the plaque "was placed on the inner walls of the Statue's pedestal" in 1903.
A 1954 guidebook, available online at http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/11/index.htm, says that the tablet is not inside the statue:
- Entrance to the base of the statue is through the high walls of old Fort Wood, through what was originally the fort's principal sally port. Its doors are 4 inches thick. To the left of these heavy doors is a bronze tablet on which is inscribed the Emma Lazarus sonnet, The New Colossus, quoted on page 1. Of the many poems pertaining to the statue, this is the most widely known. It was written in 1883 for the Portfolio of the Art Loan Collection to aid the pedestal fund...
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:1Yshxb2ydpsJ:www.newyorkled.com/Past_Event_Emma_Lazarus_Commemorative.htm+battery+park+lazarus+rededication&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 seems to say it (or a plaque like it?) is now in Battery Park.
So... I don't know where the bronze tablet is.
[edit] Emma Lazarus and Benjamin Cardozo
It seems very unlikely that Benjamin Cardozo, b. 1870, was an uncle of Emma Lazarus, b. 1849. A more likely candidate is Benjamin's father Albert, b. 1818, also a judge.
According to Jonathan Sarna's "American Judaism," Lazarus was from "an aristocratic Jewish family of mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazic heritage." See p. 139. This would suggest that the text is incorrect in eliding reference to her Ashkenazic background.
[edit] Heinrich Eduard Jacob
See H. E. Jacob and Emma Lazarus by Wikipedia Germany: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus See H. E. Jacob by Wikipedia Germany: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Eduard_Jacob
[edit] Broken formatting
I don't have a Wikipedia account, but I couldn't help noticing that the formatting of the infobox is broken. I have no idea how to fix it, but it's showing raw code for the death date, and the death location is completely absent. I don't know if I should post this here either, but I don't know what else to do. Sorry if I've broken some rule.
- Good job, thank you. Please sign your comments with ~~~~ and consider joining us. ←Humus sapiens ну? 11:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Trips to Europe
How did Emma Lazarus travel "5 times to Europe" when she died shortly after her second visit? Morganfitzp 04:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
