Mae's Real Stories

Lighting Hanukkah lamps using oil or candles has been a Jewish tradition for 2100 years. Jewish people have lived in many countries, and artists have chosen designs that they liked for their own time and place. Sometimes people liked to hang their lamps on the wall, and sometimes they liked to place their lamps on a table. In some lamps the candles or oil holders stand up higher than others. Now museums have collections to show all these designs. Here are a few pictures from museum websites.



The above lamp is from about 100 years ago in America. Each candle is held up by a little statue of liberty, to celebrate both the Hanukkah freedom story and the American freedom story.