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Emma Lazarus

Interesting Facts About Jewish Americans

Jewish Faculty and Staff Association May 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM

Did You Know? The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus," was written in 1883 by a 34-year-old Sephardic Jewish American Poet named Emma Lazarus. Logo for JAHM FACTS with stylized flame.

Statue of Liberty Photo: Ximena Torres Rodríguez on Unsplash

Emma Lazarus portrait T. Lazarus and W. Kurtz

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