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Thomas Johnson

1843–1904

Thomas Johnson was an American engraver who produced illustrations for magazines in the 1870s and 1880s. He is best known for several engravings of public figures such as Emma Lazarus, George Eliot, Walt Whitman, and Abraham Lincoln, which he modeled on photographic portraits.

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Portrait of Emma Lazarus: The Sephardic Jewish Poet Who Redefined Freedom

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Emma Lazarus was a poet whose activism drew on Jewish history and exile to shape modern ideas of identity, refuge, and renewal.
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Literature and Modernity

1750–1880

Jewish writing in the period spanning 1750–1880 reflects the profound changes that confronted Jews in modernity. Some writers self-consciously broke with traditional and religious models; others definitely embraced it.

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Poetry and Modernity

1750–1880

Jewish poets throughout Europe and the Americas created in the languages of their native tongues, allowing us access to voices and moments, particular and collective, that we would otherwise not hear.