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Shire’s work.”
While the shiny gold and silver menorahs
on view are eye-catching, Braunstein said it’s
important to remember that Jews in many
parts of the world, living in poor and dif-
ficult conditions, have used plain, everyday
materials to keep with Judaism’s teaching at
Chanukah to remember the victory of the
Maccabees over the Greeks and the rededica-
tion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem on
Temple Mount in the second century B.C.E.
“Some rabbis ranked the materials that
could be used and, at the bottom of the list, are
walnut and egg shells,” she said. “A visitor from
Romania told me he remembers his mother
took potatoes and cut them up and carved a
little hole in them and put a candle or oil in
them for Chanukah.”
But the menorah is only part of what makes
Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, so
enduring.
“Chanukah is a joyous holiday,” Braunstein
said. “It’s a holiday of light, which is always
wonderful, and it comes at the time of the
year in the Northern Hemisphere when it gets
dark early. Religiously, it’s mandated and it has
to do with the wish for the restoration of the
Temple, an important thing in Jewish
culture.”
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FACING PAGE, TOP: Larry
Kagan, Menora 2, 1980, steel
diamond plate and steel tub-
ing. Menora 2 elevates an
otherwise humble material
— mostly seen underfoot on
city sidewalks — by making it
the foundation of the object.
For Kagan, this material rep-
resented an urban vernacular
redolent of the grit and grime
of SoHo, then a scruffy neigh-
borhood where he and other
artists congregated. ABOVE:
Peter Shire, Menorah #7,
1988, painted steel, anodized
aluminum. Menorah #7 fits
seamlessly into the Memphis
collections, which confronted
the orthodoxies of Modernism
and notions of good taste and
favored illogical geometries;
pastel, primary and neon col-
ors; and wacky graphics.
LEFT: Frederick J. Kormis,
Hanukkah Lamp, 1950, copper
alloy. When interpreting the
story of Chanukah, the rabbis
of antiquity stressed Divine
intervention rather than
human courage and strength.
It is only in the 20th century
that Judah Maccabee begins
to appear on lamps, as he does
on this one.
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