On Sale Now: Emma Lazarus Get the latest volume in Nextbook's Jewish Encounters series at your local bookstore or at the online retailers below. For more book recommendations, go to Nextbook.org Emma Lazarus was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her. Before these categories even existed, Lazarus was a feminist, a Zionist, and an internationally famous Jewish-American writer. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s, Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her fascinating complexity, combining a scholar's familiarity with Lazarus's world with a poet's sympathy for her subject. Schor brings to life a Jew with few fellow travelers: Lazarus made her coreligionists uncomfortable with her Zionist views and she made Christians squirm with her denunciations of anti-Semitism. This groundbreaking biography argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as a poet, an activist, and a prophet of the world we inhabit today—a world that she helped to invent. Buy this book: Amazon Barnes and Noble Book Sense
	PRAISE
	"Schor brings to life the complicated, passionate woman who left us our proudest national image. A work of great empathy an meticulous historical research." —Kevin Baker, author of Paradise Alley "In this luminous, enthralling biography, Esther Schor recovers one of the outstanding women of nineteenth-century letters, who while inventing her life as an American Jewish writer discovered a larger poetic mission for the entire nation." —Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln "Esther Schor, herself a poet of authentic distinction, has composed a very moving and highly useful biographical critique of Emma Lazarus, a permanent poet in American and in Jewish tradition." —Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
	ABOUT THE AUTHOR
	ESTHER SCHOR, a poet and professor of English at Princeton University, is the author of The Hills of Holland: Poems and Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria. She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times Book Review, and the Forward. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.