Emma Lazarus was by far at the time the leading Jewish literary figure in 19th-century America. And it's her sonnet which was called ``The New Colossus'' that is engraved on the base of the Statute of Liberty: ``Give me your tired, your poor, yearning to breathe free.'' And then the rest is history.
Wasserman Schultz highlights the significance of Emma Lazarus and her poem related to the Statue of Liberty.
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