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La poemojn inspiris la vivo kaj verko de la Venecia poeto kaj intelektulo Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?-1641), specife ¿ia kvarjara korespondado kun Ansaldo Cebà, pastro el ¿enovo. Tra ilia stre¿a, disputoplena, ofte pasia pensinter¿an¿o, Cebà sen¿ese klopodis konverti ¿in al Kristanismo, sensukcese. Sarra Copia Sulam vivis, lernis kaj verkis en la Getoo de Vene­cio. La nomo de tiu malgranda juda kvartalo, kie ¿i elvivis sian vivon, trapasis, en ni...

Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardEmma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable story has remained a mystery until now. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s, Esther Schor brings this vital woman to life in all her complexity-as a feminist, a Zionist, and a trailblazing Jewish-American writer. Schor argues persuasively for Lazarus's place in history as an activis...

Breathtaking, rigorous new poems that wrestle with history, myth, devils, angels and self

Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished gro...

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Well-known scholars review Mary Shelley's work in several contexts (literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography.

Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardThe definitive biography of the poet whose sonnet "The New Colossus" appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming immigrants to their new home.Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her--a feminist, a Zionist, and an in...