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Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist. She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883, which includes "lines of world-wide welcome". Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, installed in 1903, a decade and a half after Lazarus's death. The last stanza of the sonnet was set to music by Irving
Emma Budge
Emma Lazarus Budge (nee Lazarus,17 February 1852 - 14 February 1937) was a wealthy Jewish socialite, philanthropist and art collector from Hamburg.
She was born Emma Lazarus in Hamburg in 1852, the daughter of the merchant Ludwig Lazarus. She married Henry Budge and they emigrated to the US, but returned to Hamburg in 1903. They lived at the so-called "Budge-Palais" on the Alster, Hamburg, and amassed a large art collection.
Budge had specified that her art collection was