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The Kindling of the Hanukkah Lights is one of the many works portraying Jewish family life and scenes of Jewish domestic observances by German Jewish artist Moritz Oppenheim. Though painted in the…
Contributor:
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1880
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At the center of the backplate of this Hanukkah lamp from Frankfurt am Main is a scene depicting the biblical heroine Judith, who has cut off Holofernes’s head and is about to place it in a sack held…
Contributor:
Johann Valentin Schüler
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
Late 17th Century
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This Hanukkah lamp was made in Nuremberg, Germany, where it was characteristic in the eighteenth century for Hanukkah lamps to include a parchment with the blessings for lighting. At the time, however…
Contributor:
Matheus Staedlein
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1716–1735