It was really thrilling for me to translate Emma Lazarus’s New Colossus to Hebrew.  Even if you don’t know Hebrew, you’ll get my amazing enthusiasm about the poem in the clip…  Let them know if you like it.

It was the first poem that brought me to tears when I was growing up, but the more I studied poetry as a student the more embarrassed I was about loving it.  No one seemed to take the poem as seriously as I did.  But today, when I heard Biden quote a line from the poem, I realized once again that it was the quintessential poem for me, and I was proud that I always believed in the ideals it represents.