Hanukkah

Hanukkah commemorates the miraculous reconsecration of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees in 164 B.C.E, following their victory over the Syrian-Greek armies of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The main feature of the festival is the lighting at home of an additional light of the Hanukkah lamp on each of the eight days of the festival (25 Kislev - 2 Tevet). More

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Hanukkah lamp Berlin (?), Germany 18th century	Hanukkah lamp shaped like a gate Germany 18th century	Hanukkah lamp shaped like the Temple Menorah and surmounted by figure of Judith Frankfurt, Germany Late 17th century	Hanukkah lamp with the figure of Judith lighting the menorah and her maidservant Germany 18th century	Hanukkah lamp adorned with Hanukkah lamp flanked by rampant lions Frankfurt, Germany 1748-1776
Hanukkah lamp shaped like a rectangular box with eight inner compartments Neusatz (Novi Sad), Austria-Hungary 19th century