Who Was Emma Lazarus? The Sephardic Diaspora pt. 8

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
  • Brief lecture on the life and work of Emma Lazarus, author of the poem The New Colossus, enshrined at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

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  • @76olimpo
    @76olimpo 4 года назад +4

    this lecture made me cry..
    thank you so much

    • @HenryAbramsonPhD
      @HenryAbramsonPhD  4 года назад +1

      Yeah, there were some emotional moments, I agree. Glad you found it useful.

  • @priscillaobeng-akrofi619
    @priscillaobeng-akrofi619 4 года назад +3

    How I wished this vision of liberty and prosperity were real for all Americans. Unfortunately, Many in America are languishing in systemic racism, oppression, and poverty.
    Let the vision and mission of Ema Lazarus be realistic to all Americans including foreigners who need to experience the American Dream. I love Ema Lazarus and wish to honor her legacy of keeping America as a place of refuge for the oppressed. So help me God.

  • @honeybadgerisme
    @honeybadgerisme 6 лет назад +3

    I deeply appreciate your lectures always, but this...is just inspiring! Thank You Henry Abramson from a great-granddaughter of some of those 1840’s German Jewish immigrants who still lived apparently as Christian(?) It may have just been my Grandmother doing that, though. She and my Grandfather were, as they put it, “t-totallers.” And Grandma’s brothers were known for their heavy drinking...Ah! So many questions! You really inspire looking for answers!

  • @rareword
    @rareword 6 лет назад +7

    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
    MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
    "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
    With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
    Emma Lazarus

  • @gitanitosevillano5121
    @gitanitosevillano5121 6 лет назад +5

    I am originally from Colombia; living now in USA. I love the Poem "The New Colossus." of Ema Lazarus. Here I am getting ready to know more about her. Have a presentation to my students next week. :).

  • @krishnadundur3694
    @krishnadundur3694 4 года назад +1

    Very touching poem.

  • @briankelly5828
    @briankelly5828 6 лет назад +2

    A very interesting video and helpful to explain the events in Russia that gave rise to the majority American Jewish community and its political loyalties to this day. I suppose her religious liberalism would have given her an affinity to Emerson and the heirs to New England New Thought.

  • @davidsavage6324
    @davidsavage6324 6 лет назад +2

    as I understand the Colossus of Rhodes didn't straddle the harbor, it just stood at one side and the straddling idea was a later innovation, I think by Renaissance illustrators.

  • @nicklegg61
    @nicklegg61 2 года назад

    I have just found out that Emma lazarus is a distant relative of mine.Just amazing.

  • @janepiepes2243
    @janepiepes2243 6 лет назад +1

    Dear Professor Abramson,
    We've been watching your lectures every night for, maybe, a couple of months now. Thank you. You are quite the engaging lecturer !
    We watched this one on
    Emma Lazurus tonight.
    It says that it was published in April 2018. Can you tell me when it was written ?
    Regards,
    ~ Janey

    • @neilclarke1498
      @neilclarke1498 6 лет назад

      i must agree great lectures keep up the great.work Dr.

  • @markjacobi3537
    @markjacobi3537 5 лет назад +2

    YaherKOach from Melbourne Australia Dr Henry!
    Unfortunately I don't think their is an Aussie Emma Lazaru(?)

  • @marycross5010
    @marycross5010 Месяц назад

    I had a dream about Michael looking for me. He said I had amnesia and they wanted me to open the door to heaven, but I don't know how.

  • @bingeltube
    @bingeltube 5 лет назад +1

    Very recommendable

  • @luisga3709
    @luisga3709 5 лет назад +2

    Bahyeeah might come from Brazil the state of Bahia settled by Bnei'Anussim, one of them renowned governor Ibn-Bahya

  • @davidsavage6324
    @davidsavage6324 6 лет назад +2

    we should retrain ourselves to say rediscovery of New World in reference to Columbus (or even Vikings, Chinese, Phoenicians, ancient Israelites (fathering certain Cherokee groups) or any other human group for that matter)

  • @georgerodriguez4207
    @georgerodriguez4207 3 года назад

    Very cool

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 4 года назад

    I believe my mom's ancestors left Lithuania from Vilnius, in the 1870-1880 time frame.

  • @mitzvahgolem8366
    @mitzvahgolem8366 6 лет назад +1

    a hero

  • @esty6374
    @esty6374 6 лет назад +6

    She looks exactly like Jerry Seinfeld!

  • @marycross5010
    @marycross5010 Месяц назад

    I think I know who is this mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, that is the "I AM who I AM"
    See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!
    She once was full of justice;
    righteousness used to dwell in her-
    but now murderers!
    Your silver has become dross,
    your choice wine is diluted with water.
    Your rulers are rebels,
    partners with thieves;
    they all love bribes
    and chase after gifts.
    They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
    the widow’s case does not come before them.
    Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    the Mighty One of Israel, declares:
    “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes
    and avenge myself on my enemies.
    I will turn my hand against you;
    I will thoroughly purge away your dross
    and remove all your impurities.
    I will restore your leaders as in days of old,
    your rulers as at the beginning.
    Afterward you will be called
    the City of Righteousness,
    the Faithful City.”

  • @marycross5010
    @marycross5010 Месяц назад

    I know where The Ark of the Covenant too.

    • @marycross5010
      @marycross5010 Месяц назад

      This Ark is very important to me. My husband used to guard it.

  • @eliyahum4285
    @eliyahum4285 6 лет назад +1

    Love your lecture series but your socialized health care jokes are getting old. Especially to an American Jew with elderly aunts and uncles in Canada who have waited on lists for up to two years for knee and hip replacement surgeries. It's not the panacea you're making it out to be.

  • @maztermonzter9764
    @maztermonzter9764 5 лет назад +2

    zionist!

  • @mafia_dave32
    @mafia_dave32 6 лет назад

    She looks like Milo Yiannopoulos