{"id":2386,"date":"2012-04-02T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/the-new-collosus-by-emma-lazarus-not-like-the\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:53:52","slug":"the-new-collosus-by-emma-lazarus-not-like-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/the-new-collosus-by-emma-lazarus-not-like-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2386 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/the-new-collosus-by-emma-lazarus-not-like-the\/attachment\/2387\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m1v43cB1Vs1r3qmd1o1_r4_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>The New Collosus<br \/><\/strong>by Emma Lazarus<\/p>\n<p>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br \/>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br \/>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br \/>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br \/>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br \/>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br \/>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br \/>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br \/>&ldquo;Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!&rdquo; cries she<br \/>With silent lips. &ldquo;Give me your tired, your poor,<br \/>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br \/>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br \/>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br \/>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Lazarus\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Lazarus&rsquo;s<\/a> &ldquo;The New Colossus&rdquo; (1883), which is the poem that graces the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statue_of_Liberty\" target=\"_blank\">Statue of Liberty<\/a>\u00a0(installed on bronze plaque in 1903).\u00a0The AJHS collections are also home to other poems by Lazarus in draft form, and Emma Lazarus is featured in the exhibition on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjh.org\/nyc\" target=\"_blank\">New York City and the Jews<\/a>\u00a0now on view at the Center.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about the poem and its history?\u00a0Read the <em>New York Times<\/em> blog entry: <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/26\/how-a-sonnet-made-a-statue-the-mother-of-exiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;How a Sonnet Made a Statue the \u2018Mother of Exiles.\u2019&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Collosusby Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.&ldquo;Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!&rdquo; cries sheWith&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,1090,962,1154,1091],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ajhs-collections","tag-emma-lazarus","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-new-york-city-and-the-jews","tag-the-new-colossus","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}