A brass Chanukah lamp of the Polish type, dating from the early 20th century, supported on four legs. At the front on a horizontal base there are eight olive lamps in the form of small shot glasses. A lamp of the same shape is located at the crown topping the exhibit. It serves as a burner to ignite the different parts of the trough. The lamp's openwork backrest, beneath the crown, features a lion standing on a semi-circular band bearing an inscription in Hebrew.
Hanukkah lamp (Hebrew: hanukiy(y)a; Yiddish: hanike-lomp, hanike-layhter) – a candle holder associated with Hanukkah, a holiday celebrated for eight days, beginning on the 25th day of the month of Kislev (around mid-December). It is related to the commemoration of the anniversary of the victory of Judah Maccabee's Jewish national liberation uprising over the Seleucids (Maccabean uprising/Hashmonean uprising) in 164 BC and the ritual cleansing of the desecrated Jerusalem Temple and its rededication. New equipment was then made, and the small amounts of undefiled oil found were used to light the fire in the temple – there was enough oil until a new batch was delivered. During Hanukkah, the candlestick is lit from the left, adding one light each day after sunset. The Hanukkah lamp was usually placed in the window to shine on the world, but not to illuminate the room.
The exhibit comes from the studio of the Kalisz-based graphic artist Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. It was given to the museum as a last will gift from the artist.
