Sabbath Lamp
Johann Valentin Schüler
1680–1720
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Sabbath / Festival Lamp. Jewish Cultural Reconstruction / The Jewish Museum, New York.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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Johann Valentin Schüler
1680–1720
Johann Valentin Schüler was one of a family of silversmiths whose workshops in Frankfurt-am-Main produced ritual objects for Frankfurt’s Jewish community. The family included his brother, Johann Michael Schüler (b. 1650), and brother-in-law Johann Adam Boller. His father, Michael Schüler, was also a silversmith. Boller and the Schülers were the first to produce a new type of Hanukkah lamp, for home use, that became popular in the Jewish community in Frankfurt in the early eighteenth century.
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)