Objects

Hanukkah lamp consisting of an elongated base with eight oil holders and a triangular openwork backplate. The sides of the base are extended and rolled outwards. The oil holders are topped with an acute arch. The bottom part of the backplate is attached to the base with two brass rivets. The backplate has a shape resembling an isosceles triangle with a symmetrical openwork ornament. It is topped with a round hoop for hanging the lamp.

The item was purchased for the collection of the National Museum of Przemyśl from Salomon Freifeld in 1984. Freifeld was one of the leading activists of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews, founded in Przemyśl in 1950. He was a member of its first management board and concomitantly worked as its secretary. The main objective of the Association was to preserve Yiddish culture and language. It had some 50 members – Jewish Holocaust Survivors living in Przemyśl – who would meet in a large, well-equipped clubhouse with a library of books in Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Freifeld donated several items connected with Jewish culture and tradition to the National Museum of Przemyśl, including tallitot, kippot, and phylacteries.