The Feast of Lights

Author(s): Emma Lazarus

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry), House & Home, Other Religions

Narrators: Chris Caron, Carmen H, David Lawrence, Snapdragon, Algy Pug, Lucy Perry, Rhonda Federman, Ravenotation, TriciaG

Number of Chapters: 9

Length: 28 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.

Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is the Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during the 2nd century BCE.
This poem celebrating Hanukkah was written by Emma Lazarus, a Jewish American poet. Emma Lazarus also wrote 'The New Colossus,' a sonnet which is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.