As Malcolm Guite makes clear, the story of Abraham and Sarah entertaining strangers is the call for us all to do the same. Thus are the barren made fertile.
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Tag Archives: Emma Lazarus
Made Whole by Their Hospitality
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Rosh Hashanah and the American Dream
An Emma Lazarus Rosh Hashanah poem frames America as a promised land for Jews fleeing Russian prosecution.
Use Poetry to Teach American Civics
Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.
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Yes, Liberty Statue Means What We Think
Friday Because the Trump administration periodically attempts to redefine the Statue of Liberty and reframe Emma Lazarus’s accompanying lyric, I am reposting a very smart essay that a former colleague wrote about the statue and the poem. Donna Richardson establishes that the two together create a special synergy that has defined us as a nation. […]
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The Synergy between Statue and Poem
Senior White House aide tried Wednesday to separate the Statue of Liberty from Emma Lazarus’s poem. He wasn’t entirely wrong but he was more wrong than right.
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High above Flood & Fire Ye Held the Scroll
Emma Lazarus writes a Statue of Liberty-type poem celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
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America, An Immigrant Nation
Opponents of the Dream Act should reread the lines on the Statue of Liberty.
Refugee Poem Changed Liberty’s Meaning
The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty get us to interpret the sculpture differently than the designer intended.
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