Grace Seixas Nathan

Grace Seixas Nathan
Grace Seixas Nathan
	portrait by Henry Inman
Born	November 11, 1752 ; Stratford
Died	November 8, 1831 (aged 78); New York
Occupation	Writer
Spouse(s)	Simon Nathan
Children	Seixas Isaac Mendes Nathan
Relatives	Gershom Mendes Seixas, Moses Seixas

Grace Seixas Nathan (1752–1831) was an American Jewish poet and a member of a prominent Western Sephardic family.^[1]

Biography

Grace Seixas was born on November 11, 1752, in Stratford, Connecticut. In 1780, she married Simon Nathan, a merchant and a supporter of the American Revolution. The couple had one son, Isaac Mendes (born 1785–1852). Seixas Nathan died in New York on November 8, 1831. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime.^[2] In 1947, some of her correspondence was published by the American Jewish Historical Society.^[3]

She was the great-grandmother of poet Emma Lazarus.^[4]

References

^ Kaufman, A. L. (1998). Cardozo (Vol. 16). Harvard University Press.
^ Snyder, Holly. "Grace Seixas Nathan." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. December 31, 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on February 2, 2023).
^ de Sola Pool, D. (1947). Some Letters of Grace Seixas Nathan, 1814–1821. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, (37), 203–211.
^ Schor, Esther H. (2017). Emma Lazarus. Internet Archive. New York : Schocken. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-8052-4275-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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[1] Kaufman, A. L. (1998). Cardozo (Vol. 16). Harvard University Press.

[2] Snyder, Holly. "Grace Seixas Nathan." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. December 31, 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on February 2, 2023).

[3] Sola Pool, D. (1947). Some Letters of Grace Seixas Nathan, 1814–1821. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, (37), 203–211.

[4] Schor, Esther H. (2017). Emma Lazarus. Internet Archive. New York : Schocken. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-8052-4275-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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