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Title

Luminous art : Hanukkah menorahs of the Jewish Museum / Susan L. Braunstein.

Author

Braunstein, Susan L.

Publication

New York : Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.

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Description

xi, 244 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 32 cm.

Summary

"A magnificent array of Hanukkah menorahs and lamps that shed light on the Jewish traditions that produced them: The ceremonial kindling of lights each night during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah commemorates an ancient victory for religious freedom-the liberation and rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 164 BCE. As their diversity and beauty attest, Hanukkah lamps are singularly important as a form of ceremonial art and are among Judaism's best-loved traditional objects. This superbly illustrated book showcases more than 100 Hanukkah lamps selected from the extensive collection of The Jewish Museum in New York. The featured lamps date from the Renaissance to our own time, and were created from a wide variety of materials in virtually every part of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Susan L. Braunstein provides an engaging overview of the Hanukkah lamp and discusses its origins in Jewish tradition, its many innovative forms, its enduring ritual uses, and its social context. She also includes a short informative essay about each of the wonderfully varied lamps pictured in the book."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) > Catalogs
• Hanukkah lamp > Catalogs

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Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum -- Acknowledgments / Susan L. Braunstein -- Eight lights, a thousand tales : Hanukkah lamps of The Jewish Museum / Susan L. Braunstein -- Highlights of the collection -- The Netherlands -- Germany -- Austria -- Italy -- Eastern Europe -- Other European countries -- North Africa -- The Middle East and Asia -- The Americas -- Lamps made from other objects.

ISBN

0300103875 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004053763

OCLC

55615700

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library