Poems read are Let's be Happy, Joyous Hanukkah and Happy Hanukkah. Authors are unknown. Hanukkah is also known as the Festival of Lights or Feast of Dedication. It is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BC. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar.