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American Hebrew 33(Dec. 9, 1887). Angoff, Charles. Emma Lazarus, Poet, Jewish Activist, Pioneer Zionist. New York: Jewish Historical Society of New York, 1979.

Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century. New York: Free Press, 1997.

Arthur, John. The Best Years of the Century: Richard Watson Gilder, Scribner's Monthly and Century Magazine, 1870-1909. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Baym, Max I. "Emma Lazarus and Emerson". Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 38(1948):261-87.

Baym, Max I. "Emma Lazarus' approach to Renan in Her Essay 'Renan and the Jews.'". Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 37(1947): 17-29.

Birmingham, Stephen. "Our Crowd": The Great Jewish Families of New York. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

The Century 4(1889).Cowen, Philip. "Recollections of Emma Lazarus." American Hebrew (July 5, 1929): 229, 240-1.

Cowen, Philip. Memories of an American Jew. New York: International Press, 1932.

The Critic 11 (Dec.10,1887).

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873. Elazar, Daniel J. The Other Jews. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1989.Emerson, Ellen Tucker. The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson. 2 vols. Edith E.W., Gregg, ed. Kent Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1982.Grinstein, Hyman B. The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York 1654-1860. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1945.Jacob, Heinrich E. The World of Emma Lazarus. New York: Schocken Books, 1949.

Kessner, Carole S. "Matrilineal Dissent: The Rhetoric of Zeal in Emma Lazarus, Marie Syrkin, and Cynthia Ozick." Women of the Word : Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. Judith R. Baskin, ed. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1994.

Klagsbrun, Francine. Forward. Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters. By Bette Roth Young Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1995. ix-xv.

Kramer, Aaron. "The Link Between Heinrich Heine and Emma Lazarus". Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society. 45(1955).

Emma Lazarus: Collections of Poetry and Letters:
  • Emma Lazarus: Poet of the Jewish People. Klein, Emma, ed. Arthur James, 1997.

  • Selections from Her Poetry and Prose. Edited with an introduction by Morris U Schappes. New York: Cooperative Book League, 1944.

  • The Letters of Emma Lazarus, 1868-1885. Edited with an introduction by Morris U. Schappes. New York, New York Public Library, 1949.>
Emma Lazarus: Books:Emma Lazarus: Essays, Articles, Poems:

Lazarus, Josephine. "Emma Lazarus". The Century 36(October 1888):887. Reprinted in The Poems of Emma Lazarus. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889.

Letters to Emma Lazarus in the Columbia University Library. Ralph L. Rusk, ed. New York: New York Public Library, 1949.

Lichtenstein, Diane. Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Lichtenstein, Diane. "Emma Lazarus." Jewish Women In America. Vol. 1. Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, eds. New York : Routledge, 1997. 806-808.

Lippincott's Magazine. 20(1877)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874.

Mordell, Albert. "Some Final Words on Emma Lazarus.'" Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 39 (1950): 321-7.

New-York Historical Society. Old New York in Early Photographs, 1853-1901. Mary Black, ed. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.

Puck. May 1881.

Ruchames, Louis. "New Light on the Religious Development of Emma Lazarus." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 42 (1952): 83-8.

Schappes, Morris U. "Songs of a Semite Back in Print." Jewish Currents (Oct. 1979): 20-1.

"Sensation at Saratoga". The New York Times. June 19, 1877.

Swerdlow, Tess. "The Emmas: Progressive Jewish Women." Jewish Currents (November, 1975): 18-21.

Szold, Henrietta. "Emma Lazarus." Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904. 7:651-2

Vogel, Dan. Emma Lazarus. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980

Young, Bette Roth. Emma Lazarus in Her World. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1995

 

Archival Sources


American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati Campus, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion.

American Jewish Historical Society. Waltham, MA and New York, NY.

Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. New York, NY.

Collection of the New York Historical Society. New York, NY.

David R. Godine Publishers. Boston, MA.

Emma Lazarus Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. New York, NY.

Houghton Library, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.

John T. Hopf.

Levick Collection, the Mariners' Museum. Newport News, VA.

Library of Congress. Washington, DC.

Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. New York, NY.

Redwood Library and Athenaeum. Newport, RI.

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Cambridge, MA.

Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Northampton, MA.

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. Charlottesville, VA.