Bio Poem Emma Nice, thoughtful, caring Lover of books and poetry Who excels at writing poems

1. Emma Lazarus By Julia Hershey Language Arts Excel I lift my lamp by Nancy Smiler Levinson 9/28/11 Bio Poem Emma Nice, thoughtful, caring Lover of books and poetry Who excels at writing poems Who feels sad about mistreatment to Jews Who needs books and inspiration in her life Who gives comfort and Support Who fears nothing What happens to Jews later in life Lazarus

2. Her Early life Emma Lazarus was born on July 22,1849 in a Jewish home in New York. With 5 sisters and a brother. Her family was well to do and often had over important quests. Her and her siblings had private tutors and were taught literature, math, history, geography, music, and languages. Emma became interested in poetry and books. When she gave herself time to play she gave her dolls the roll of Greek goddesses and heroes instead of the normal rolls of house. Emma wrote a book of poetry and got it published with the help of her dad. The Jews helped rebuild America because they were eager to work. Emma met her favorite poet Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson. They wrote letters back and forth and Emma found a lot of inspiration from him. She wrote him about her book she made and he said he wanted a copy. She wrote a second book and gave it to Mr. Emerson to check he wrote a letter back full of admiration. Mr. Emerson wrote a book with poems from different people in it. Emma bought the book immediately and leafed through it looking for one of her poems. She found that none of her poems were in the book and she wrote a letter to him asking him why. A little while later she decided to no longer be his friend.

3. Early years continued In the time that Emma was growing up women didn’t have many rights at all. They weren’t aloud to go out in public without a man to guard them and they were not aloud to own property. Women were seen as weak minded and fragile and men thought that all they were good at was to keep house, cook, clean, and take care of the children. Emma Lazarus’s poem video

4. Extraordinary Events • Wrote several poems including the poem on the Plaque by the Statue of Liberty. • Wrote and published three books • Helped Jews survive • Gave money from some of her poems toward the Statue of Liberty

5. Emma verses Lincoln Loved to read books and poetry Helped create peace between the Races Wrote several documents and laws Had a statue of him with sayings and his famous words on it Helped create equal rights • Wrote poems even after she didn’t get written about In a friend’s book. • Helped Jews to earn money in hard times • Wrote several books • Wrote a poem that is on the Statue of Liberty • Helped gather money to make the podium for the Statue of liberty.

6. Born on July 22,1849 • 1866 became interested in poems and started writing to Mr. Emerson • 1871 Admetus and other poems • Wrote Alide in 1874 • 1876 wrote Spagnoletto • 1877 Began translations of medieval Hebrew poets from German to English • 1881 Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine • 1882 published an Epistle to the Hebrew published Serially in the American Hebrew • “New Colossus” written for Barthold pedestal fund in 1883

7. 1883 Founds society for the improvement and colonization of the Eastern European Jews. • Father dies • 1885 Travels to Europe • 1887 “by the waters of Babylon” was published in the century newspaper • Returns from Europe in September and is ill • Dies in New York city on November 19th 1877 • 1903 her poem is placed on the statue of Liberty