[Ralph Waldo] Emerson once wrote in an essay: "That which takes my fancy most, in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit." "William Rufus and the Jew" suggests that Emerson's hilarity, as Lazarus intuited, was leavened with a decided degree of contempt for Jewish people."William Rufus and the Jew"
from Forward: The Arty Semite: Emerson, Emma Lazarus and the Jews
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