Intersecting Streams: Jews in Emma Lazarus' New York January 8, 2012

Prof. Hasia Diner, NYU, and Prof. Aviva Ben-Ur, UMass, Amherst

Emma Lazarus’ lifetime was a period of change and challenge in the American Jewish world. Diner and Ben-Ur assess what the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities in late 19th-century New York shared and where they diverged.