Hanukkah Lamp (Frankfurt am Main)
Johann Adam Boller
1706
Credits
Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg / The Jewish Museum, New York.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Creator Bio
Johann Adam Boller
1679–1731
Johann Adam Boller 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 brothers-in-law, Johann Valentin Schüler, Johann Michael Schüler (b. 1650), and his father-in-law Michael Schüler. 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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