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Writing about jews who were coming? >> well, she had had direct contact with eastern european jews coming in large numbers, they were fleeing persecution, coming with hardly any money, they were coming with their families, and she went to help them, that was her awakening to the plight of immigrants, its important when she wrote the poem, she didnt say were here to help jewish immigrants, no, she took that experience and universalized that about america more broadly. >> when we look at the new t...