Hanukkah Lamp (Frankfurt am Main)

Johann Valentin Schüler

Late 17th Century

Credits

Hanukkah Lamp. Purchase: Norman S. Goetz, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Loeb, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Marx, Ira A. Schur, Lawrence A. Wien, Leonard Block, Gustave L. Levy, and Robert I. Wishnick Gifts / The Jewish Museum, New York.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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Johann Valentin Schüler

1650–1720

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. 1658), 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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