Winning Design, 1994 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize: "Lighting Our Lamps in Days of Old" Hannukah Menorah, Janet Berg, Jerusalem, Circa 1994

Acquired from the artist in 2006, number 13 of an edition of 163.

(model) Chicago, 1994: The Hanukkah Menorah, Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize, Spertus Museum, October 2 - February 26, 1994, no. 2 (this model with slight variation).

(model) Weiss, Olga, ed. The Hanukkah Menorah, Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Chicago: Spertus Museum, 1994, pp. 20-28 (this model with slight variation).

The translated inscriptions around the rim read: "These lights that we kindle [are in commemoration of the miracles... that You performed] in those days, in this season."

The central part of this design features the key images of the Hanukkah story, the cruse, or pitcher, of oil, and the seven branched Temple Menorah. The artist designed the piece so that it could, if the owner desired, burn continuously for eight days, following the Hannukah miracle; it can also be extinguished each night.