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Readers of Emma Lazarus\u2019 \u201cThe New Colossus\u201d\u2014a celebrated poem written about the Statue of Liberty and ultimately inscribed on its base\u2014may sense that Lazarus gazed upon Lady Liberty and saw none other than Deborah, the judge and prophetess. The poem describes Lady Liberty as, \u201cA mighty woman with a torch, whose flame \/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name \/ Mother of Exiles,\u201d recalling Deborah\u2019s biblical profile as a \u201cwoman of <\/span>Lapidot<\/span><\/em> (torches)\u201d (Jud. 4:4), the partner of <\/span>Barak<\/span><\/em> (lightning) (Jud. 4-5), and a \u201cmother in Israel\u201d (Jud. 5:7). Lazarus wrote \u201cThe New Colossus\u201d in 1883, shortly after her well-documented embrace of her Jewish identity and her entry into Jewish communal activism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of the devastating 1881 pogroms in Russia, Lazarus began to advocate for Eastern European Jewish refugees in the United States, argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine before the emergence of Herzlian Zionism, and published such influential Jewish works as <\/span>Songs of a Semite<\/span><\/i> (1882) and <\/span>An Epistle to the Hebrews<\/span><\/i> (1883). This timeline led University of Missouri professor Alexandra Socarides to<\/span> suggest<\/span><\/a> that Lazarus may have written about the United States with Eretz Israel in mind, that she sought to define her American homeland as \u201ca home of exiles, a home not unlike what she had been imagining for Jews in Palestine.\u201d Socarides further notes the Deborah interpretation of the poem, concluding that \u201cLazarus took this most public of opportunities to make the history of the Jewish people central to international politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since its dedication in 1886, the Statue of Liberty has inspired hundreds of replicas around the world. Unsurprisingly, then, Lady Liberty\/Lazarus\u2019 Deborah eventually made her own triumphant return to the Jewish homeland, and even to the region of Deborah\u2019s victory. One Statue of Liberty<\/span> stands proudly<\/span> in Arraba (above left), an Lower Galilee town, just a 38-kilometer drive from the Mount Tabor battle site and a 36-kilometer drive from Kedesh Naftali, the biblical site rumored to be the burial site of both Deborah and Barak. Another<\/span> stands<\/span> further north in the town of Maghar, 35 kilometers from Mount Tabor and 30 kilometers from Kedesh Naftali (above right). <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps unbeknownst to their creators, these far-flung tributes to a symbol of American liberty double as celebrations of a hometown heroine. <\/span><\/p>\n

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