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This Fantasy-Private
banknote features Emma Lazarus,
(July 22, 1849 – November
 19, 1887) an American author of poetry,
prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes.
She wrote the sonnet "The
New Colossus" in 1883. Its
lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque,
installed in 1903, on
the pedestal of the Statue
of Liberty. The
last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving
Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949
musical Miss
Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of
Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). The latter part o f the
sonnet was also set by Lee
Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part
of his song cycle "Three Women".
Lazarus was also the author of Poems and Translations (New York,
1867); Admetus, and other Poems (1871); Alide:
An Episode of Goethe's Life (Philadelphia, 1874); Poems
and Ballads of Heine (New York, 1881); Poems, 2
Vols.; Narrative, Lyric and Dramatic; as well as Jewish
Poems and Translations.
Source: Wikipedia
Postage stamp from Antigue & Barbuda $5 1985 features Statue of Liberty
and The New Colossus poem.
This banknote can be bought on eBay from friend dealer Yuri Minkin:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Israel-500-New-Shekels-Private-Issue-Artists-Essay-2019-Emma-Lazarus/383677194340?hash=item5954f16064:g:C8IAAOSwuhNdfFo7 |
