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North African Lights
This exhibition presents a rich collection of Hanukkah lamps of diverse styles, all produced in the lands of the Magreb. The lamps are part of a vast collection assembled by Zeyde Schulmann and donated to the Israel Museum in the 1960s. Schulmann, who ...
Hanukkah lamp modeled after ancient earthenware lamps
This lamp is apparently modeled after one of the earliest known forms of Hanukkah lamps. Remnants of a similar Hanukkah lamp were unearthed within the ruins of a medieval synagogue, discovered in an archaeological dig in the town of Lorca, near the city ...
Hanukkah lamp inscribed with the passage "We kindle these lights..."
The back panel of this early Hanukkah lamp is inscribed from side to side with the words “We kindle these lights...” in elaborate Ashkenazi calligraphy. The inscription ends with “Meir Halpern”- probably the name of the person who commissioned the lamp- ...
Stone Hanukkah lamp shaped as a star
Yemen 1930s Steatite (soapstone), carved Muchawsky-Schnapper, Ester, The Yemenites: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Culture, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2000, English / Hebrew Purchased through the gift of Bruce Kovner, New York B94.0069 Muchawsky ...
Hanukkah lamp with bust of Emperor Josef II, and emblem of Austrian Empire
The motifs adorning the back plates of this Hanukkah lamp include emblems that commemorate event in the history of central European Jewry. The lamp commemorates the granting of civil rights in 1781 with a bust of Emperor Joseph II and the double-headed ...
Hanukkah lamp recalling the Temple Menorah, topped by a figure of Judith
The branches of this Hanukkah lamp are adorned with alternating globes and flowers, in keeping with the Torah's description of the Menorah (Exodus 25:31 ff). Other decorative motifs were added by the silversmith: a peacock with outspread tail behind ...
Hanukkah lamp
Algeria or Tunisia 1744 Brass, cast Collection of Dr. Albert Ticho, Jerusalem, in the Israel Museum B83.0869 118/509 H: 27; W: 22 cm Benjamin, Chaya, North African Lights, Hanukkah Lamps from the Zeyde Schulman Collection in the Israel Museum, The Israel ...
Hanukkah lamp made of tin intended for sardine cans
Ben Ammi, Meir Maker: Meir Ben Ammi This unique Hanukkah lamp is made of strips of printed tin that were originally intended for sardine cans. Alms boxes were regularly made of the same material. In Morocco, canning sardines was a predominantly Jewish ...
