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Esther Schor

Esther Schor is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language (Metropolitan Books) and Emma Lazarus (Schocken).

September 5, 2018

“When Orchards Burn Their Lamps of Fiery Gold”

Esther Schor

Emma Lazarus’s 1882 poem for Rosh Hashanah responded to the crises of her day, foreshadowed “The New Colossus,” and resonates today.

Fall 2016

Inventing American Judaism

Esther Schor

Unlike the Jews of Venice, whose charter was anxiously renegotiated every decade or so, American Jews participated in civic life, confidently building themselves a future.

Fall 2011

Freedom Riders

Esther Schor

There is nothing subtle about the theme that runs throughout Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History.