Left-leaning Slate discusses Emma Lazarus and her subversion of the meaning of the Statue of Liberty, noting that she was a Sephardic Jew who thought poorly of the Ashkenazi immigrants whom she advocated for.
Turns out she was an ethno-centrist - a Sephardic Jew who didn't care at all for aiding any other ethnic group apart from her own. In addition, she spent time advocating for a Jewish ethnic nation state, while at the same time trying to subvert and dilute the Anglo ethnic nation state that she lived in.
The article notes that her family also had 'business' with the Confederacy. This is curious, and worth exploring. The Sephardic Jews in the South of the USA were massively over-represented in the slave trade, dominating shipping, insurance, and retail of slaves. They were, as noted by Ulysses Grant, a privileged class in the South, engaged in bypassing the Union economic embargo.
How ironic if she turned out to be a narrow ethnocentrist whose wealth came from black slavery.
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