As the first Jewish Woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her peers during her lifetime, but more than a century later, her reputation overshadows them.
Her Sephardic, or Spanish-Jewish background, is not often recognized although from the.
Those words are now among the most widely quoted lines of poetry in America.
In her lifetime her poem, "The New Colossus" had not yet become famous as it is today.
As the first Jewish Woman and Sephardic poet of importance in the United States, Emma Lazarus, struggled with recognition and acceptance among her peers during her lifetime, but more than a century later, her reputation overshadows them
