OHA 28

Drawing of a 19th C. Hanukah lamp for a synagogue, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia

Art: 2004
Size: 29 in. H x 21 3/4 W
Media: India ink with silver ink wash

The imagery was inspired by photos seen in the 1983 book "Precious Legacy - Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections" (ed. by David Altshuler, pub. by Summit Books & The Smithsonian's Traveling Exhibition Services).
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The reproduction is not backwards; the writing on the drawing was intentionally written backwards, in the Leonardo writing style.
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According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, approximately 263,000 Czech Jews were murdered by the Nazis during WWII.
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Collection of Abby Gale Layton
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Also see:
UTW 42: Shoah Dreams, portrait of Tomas Kulka, a Jewish boy from Czechoslovakia, seen upper left in the multi-image drawing
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UTW 44: Kamil Hahn of Telc, Czechoslovakia
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UTW 51: Sorrows of Love (Robert Desnos, a French Jew and surrealist poet murdered at the Terezin concentration-death camp, 1945)
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UTW 52: Czech Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff.