global $content_width; if ( ! isset( $content_width ) ) $content_width = 640; /* pixels */ if (!function_exists('library_books_setup')): /** * Sets up theme defaults and registers support for various WordPress features. * * Note that this function is hooked into the after_setup_theme hook, which runs * before the init hook. The init hook is too late for some features, such as indicating * support post thumbnails. */ function library_books_setup() { load_theme_textdomain('library-books', get_template_directory() . '/languages'); add_theme_support('automatic-feed-links'); add_theme_support('woocommerce'); add_theme_support('post-thumbnails'); add_theme_support('custom-header'); add_theme_support('title-tag'); add_theme_support('custom-logo', array( 'height' => 52, 'width' => 268, 'flex-height' => true, )); register_nav_menus(array( 'primary' => esc_html__('Primary Menu', 'library-books') , )); add_theme_support('custom-background', array( 'default-color' => 'ffffff' )); add_editor_style( 'editor-style.css' ); add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' ); } endif; // library_books_setup add_action('after_setup_theme', 'library_books_setup'); /** * Register widget area. * * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/functionality/sidebars/#registering-a-sidebar */ function library_books_widgets_init() { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Sidebar', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on page/post sidebar', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'sidebar-1', 'before_widget' => '
', 'before_title' => '

', 'after_title' => '

', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 1', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-1', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
', 'after_title' => '
', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 2', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-2', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
', 'after_title' => '
', )); register_sidebar(array( 'name' => esc_html__('Footer Column 3', 'library-books') , 'description' => esc_html__('Appears on footer', 'library-books') , 'id' => 'fc-3', 'before_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '
', 'after_title' => '
', )); } add_action('widgets_init', 'library_books_widgets_init'); /** * Register custom fonts. */ function library_books_font_url() { $font_url = ''; /* Translators: If there are any character that are not * supported by Roboto Condensed, trsnalate this to off, do not * translate into your own language. */ $robotocondensed = _x('on', 'robotocondensed:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Scada, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $scada = _x('on', 'Scada:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Roboto Slab, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $robotoslab = _x('on', 'Roboto Slab:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Merriweather, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $merriweather = _x('on', 'Merriweather:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Roboto, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $roboto = _x('on', 'Roboto:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Lato, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $lato = _x('on', 'Lato:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Playfair Display, translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $playfairdisplay = _x('on', 'Playfair Display:on or off', 'library-books'); /* Translators: If there has any character that are not supported * by Assistant , translate this to off, do not translate * into your own language. */ $assistant = _x('on', 'Assistant:on or off', 'library-books'); if ('off' !== $robotocondensed) { $font_family = array(); if ('off' !== $robotocondensed) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto Condensed:300,400,600,700,800,900'; } if ('off' !== $robotoslab) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto Slab:300,400,700'; } if ('off' !== $merriweather) { $font_family[] = 'Merriweather:300,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $roboto) { $font_family[] = 'Roboto:100,300,300i,400,400i,500,500i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $lato) { $font_family[] = 'Lato:300,300i,400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $playfairdisplay) { $font_family[] = 'Playfair Display:400,400i,700,700i,900,900i'; } if ('off' !== $assistant) { $font_family[] = 'Assistant:200,300,400,600,700,800'; } $query_args = array( 'family' => urlencode(implode('|', $font_family)) , ); $font_url = add_query_arg($query_args, '//fonts.googleapis.com/css'); } return $font_url; } /** * Enqueue scripts and styles. */ function library_books_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style('library-books-font', library_books_font_url() , array()); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-basic-style', get_stylesheet_uri()); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-print-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/print.css"); wp_enqueue_style('nivo-slider', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/nivo-slider.css"); wp_enqueue_style('font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/font-awesome.css"); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-main-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/responsive.css"); wp_enqueue_style('library-books-base-style', get_template_directory_uri() . "/css/style_base.css"); wp_enqueue_script('jquery-nivo', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/jquery.nivo.slider.js', array( 'jquery' )); wp_enqueue_script('library-books-custom-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/custom.js'); if (is_singular() && comments_open() && get_option('thread_comments')) { wp_enqueue_script('comment-reply'); } } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'library_books_scripts'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_URL', 'https://www.pinnaclethemes.net/'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_PRO_THEME_URL', 'https://www.pinnaclethemes.net/product/library-wordpress-theme/'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_FREE_THEME_URL', 'https://www.pinnaclethemes.net/product/free-bookstore-wordpress-theme/'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_THEME_DOC', 'https://pinnaclethemes.net/themedocumentation/library-documentation/'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_LIVE_DEMO', 'https://www.pinnaclethemes.net/themedemos/librarybooks/'); define('LIBRARY_BOOKS_THEMES', 'https://www.pinnaclethemes.net/cool-wordpress-themes/'); /** * Implement the Custom Header feature. */ require get_template_directory() . '/inc/custom-header.php'; /** * Custom template for about theme. */ require get_template_directory() . '/inc/about-themes.php'; /** * Custom template tags for this theme. */ require get_template_directory() . '/inc/template-tags.php'; /** * Custom functions that act independently of the theme templates. */ require get_template_directory() . '/inc/extras.php'; /** * Customizer additions. */ require get_template_directory() . '/inc/customizer.php'; /** * Add a pingback url auto-discovery header for singularly identifiable articles. */ function library_books_pingback_header() { if (is_singular() && pings_open()) { printf( '' . "\n", esc_html(get_bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ) )); } } add_action('wp_head', 'library_books_pingback_header'); // Add class in body if slide option enable function library_books_body_class( $classes ) { $hideslide = get_theme_mod('hide_slides', 1); if (!is_home() && is_front_page()) { if( $hideslide == '') { $classes[] = 'visibleslide'; } } return $classes; } add_filter( 'body_class','library_books_body_class' ); // get slug by id function library_books_get_slug_by_id($id) { $post_data = get_post($id, ARRAY_A); $slug = $post_data['post_name']; return $slug; } require_once get_template_directory() . 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\nNot long ago, I watched a PBS documentary about the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0To PBS’s credit, the plaque at its base was read verbatim.
\n“Give me your tired, your poor,
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\nHowever, no mention was made of its author,\u00a0
Emma Lazarus<\/b><\/a>, who was a major Jewish American literary figure born in New York City.So I will; I feel I must because \u2013 as it turned out \u2013 my gentile daughter married into a family with Jewish roots. It happened at a time in my life when I was busily researching our own family tree. After her first son was born, I wanted to learn all I could about his roots. So, I set about meeting with his other grandmother, who said, “I have a book with a four-page genealogical chart inside of it. My parents and Emma Lazarus are both on it, but I’ve never been able to make the connection. Maybe you can.” With that, she gave me a copy of\u00a0The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite<\/b><\/a><\/i>\u00a0by Stephen Birmingham (Syracuse University Press, 1971).<\/p>\n

I took the challenge. The chart, although lengthy and detailed, was an abbreviated version of “America’s Sephardic Elite”, derived from\u00a0Americans of Jewish Descent<\/b><\/a><\/i>, an eight-pound tome containing 25,000 names traced as far back as the sixteenth century. It was compiled by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern in 1960 and quickly became a “who’s who” of Jewish high society. After a lengthy study of my own, I finally made the connection; I traced my grandson’s ancestors twelve generations up to Moses Raphael Levy (b.1665 in Germany; d. 1728 New York City) and then eight generations down the other side to Emma Lazarus. It turns out that my grandsons (now two) were born into a great family, indeed!<\/p>\n

In the process I felt as if I’d gotten to know Emma Lazarus as a real person. She was a descendent of Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition who arrived in America even before the American Revolution \u2013 her father could trace his ancestry back to the first twenty-three Jews who settled in New York in 1654 on the “Jewish Mayflower<\/b><\/a>“. Emma herself had received a classic private education and was very much an upper-class New York Jew,<\/p>\n

But this all changed in the early 1880s when she first met Eastern European refugees escaping from\u00a0Russia’s vicious anti-Semitic pogroms<\/b><\/a>. It was bad enough that they were poor, sick, and uneducated, but worse; many American Jews in Emma’s own social circles seemed embarrassed by the unsophisticated Jewish refugees. They didn’t want to associate with these “different Jews.”<\/p>\n

This infuriated Emma and awakened within her a renewed commitment to Judaism. Already an important figure in New York’s elite literary circles, she began to write passionate Jewish poems and essays and personally helped refugees with money, food, clothing and even training. She wrote “The New Colossus” in 1883 for a fundraiser auction to build a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. This sonnet, in which America is depicted as the golden land of hope and opportunity for the oppressed, was auctioned in a benefit sale for $21,500, a sum unheard-of for a short piece of poetry. Emma Lazarus died only four years later, at the age of 38, most likely from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In 1903, her poem was engraved on a metal plaque, and attached to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n

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Author Patrick Simpson and his wheelchair-restricted wife Anne uncover their experiences exploring historical and cultural experiences around the world. Visit now to learn how independent travel for disabled persons is not only possible, it can be fun!!\u00a0www.booksbypatricksimpson.com<\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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