You have set it on a noble one, saying admirably just the right word to be said.” He credited her with “an achievement more arduous than that of the sculptor.” The American Romantic poet James Russell Lowell wrote to Lazarus a few days after the opening of the Art Loan Exhibition saying, “your sonnet gives its subject a raison d’être which it wanted before quite as much as it wants a pedestal. She began exploring Jewish themes in her poetry as well. Yet it was a more immediate Jewish refugee crisis that most likely inspired her to find a “Mother of Exiles” in what was supposed to be a “Statue of Liberty.” The Russian pogroms of the early 1880s and the flood of poor Russian Jewish immigrants and refugees arriving in New York inspired Lazarus to start working with the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society, volunteering as an aide to newly arrived immigrants at Ward’s Island, and to help establish the Hebrew Technical Institute. ![]() In fact, her family could trace its roots back to the first Jewish settlers in New York, a group of 23 Sephardic Jewish refugees who arrived in New York in 1654, after fleeing the Portuguese takeover of the Dutch colony in what is now Brazil. Her great uncle, Moses Mendes Seixas, had known George Washington she counted Georgina Schuyler, a direct descendant of Alexander Hamilton, as a friend and her first cousin, Benjamin Cardozo, eventually served on the Supreme Court. The daughter of sugar refiner Moses Lazarus, Emma was also a member of New York’s Jewish social elite. Dorr), but manuscripts by Longfellow, Mark Twain, and Henry James were also included in the auction. Her contribution to the Art Loan Exhibition catalog was one of two poems written expressly for the occasion (the other was by the now largely forgotten American poet Julia C. Lazarus was not a surprising choice to contribute to the auction she was a frequent contributor to literary magazines, had published several books, and belonged to literary circles that included Ralph Waldo Emmerson. Not just “liberty” itself, but also the idea that American “liberty” is a shining light guiding the whole world from the harbor of the young democracy’s largest city. The statue’s original name, “Liberty Enlightening the World” gives us an idea of what the project’s French backer, political thinker Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye, and his sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, intended the sculpture to personify. In this case three figures representing strength (in the form of the Greek god Hercules), speed (Mercury), and wisdom (Minerva) are meant to represent the idea of “Transportation” when taken together. Another example is the group of allegorical figures on top of Grand Central Terminal from 1912. Think of the image of “Justice” – a blindfolded woman holding scales in one hand and a sword in the other. Popular in the Gilded Age through the turn of the century, allegorical sculptures are meant to personify abstract ideas. The Statue of Liberty is an allegorical sculpture. It would take even longer for the meanings of the words and the statue to become completely intertwined. ![]() The statue, a gift to America from the people of France, was unveiled in 1886 but it was not until 1903 that these words, written 20 years earlier by a then well-known New York poet, became part of the Statue of Liberty. For many, these words are proof that welcoming immigrants and refugees is as fundamental to what it means to be American as the idea of “liberty” itself. They are the words inscribed on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty. The Park is the setting for many of the stories from The Diamond Compendium, and The Diamond Cycliverse, a series of open-source satires focusing on the life and (petty) crimes of The Rosenfeld Dynasty. Original Treatment for the Center of the Mural Art & Popular Culture The Park, as well as the Mural Columbia of Carrick, is dedicated to the life and work of author and immigration activist Emma Lazarus, best known for her poem The New Colossus, the sonnet inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. The park includes several features, such as a mural at its center, by local artist Brian Gonnella, as well as handcrafted tables and a little library created by Master of Creative Reuse Brad Bianchi, originally from Pittsburgh's South Side. Gonnella completing the Mural, Columbia of Carrick, summer 2020Įmma Lazarus Park (also known as Emma Lazarus Sensory Garden ) was founded in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh in the Spring of 2019, by property owner Shoham Ariel Zober.
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