2020 Emma Lazarus Poetry Contest Winners
Watch our contest winners read their poems, and read submissions from our finalists!
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Online Program: Meet Emma Lazarus
Students are invited to travel back in time to learn from Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus, how she used writing to express the ideas that she cared about.
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The New Colossus Translation Project
Read Emma Lazarus' poem translated into over 35 languages, along with personal stories of immigration and cultural identity from our translators
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The Emma Lazarus Curriculum
The Emma Lazarus Project curriculum provides students with the opportunity to analyze and engage with primary source materials in order to gain a deeper understanding of the United State’s long struggle with nativism, prejudice, and antisemitism.
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Mayses From the Stacks
AJHS's blog features collection highlights, exclusive interviews, hidden histories, recipes, and more!
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Support Your Heritage
Our mission of acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of American Jewish history is made possible by the generosity of people like you.
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Book Talk: Once We Were Slaves
August 4, 2021
7:00 pm
The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
On View: December 4, 2019 to December 31, 2022
Explore this exhibit online through an interactive storybook.
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Huevos Haminados (Seven Hour Eggs)
We’ve all cooked a hard-boiled egg: simmer an egg eight to twelve minutes and you’re halfway to an egg salad sandwich. But what happens if you cook an egg for eight to twelve HOURS. It’s possible and the results are spectacular.Learn More
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UJA-Federation of NY Collection
Archival material connected with the projects and philanthropic mission of UJA-Federation of NY.
The New Colossus Translation Project
Poets and translators from around the globe unfold Emma Lazarus’ poem into new languages, new meanings, and new cultures.
