Hanukkah lamp

To commemorate her late husband, the widow of Sámuel Leiner, neé Antonia Adutt, a descendant of the Viennese Turkish Jewish family Adutt, donated all Jewish family antiquities to the museum in 1917. Her first Viennese ancestor was Adutt Leon, born in Constantinople (today Istanbul, Turkey), who founded his business enterprise in Vienna in 1818. Antonia married the glue and gelatin maker Samuel Leiner in Újpest in 1879. The widow wrote her will in 1917, and at the same time donated the precious family collection of Judaica to the museum. The items take us back to the history of the Turkish-Jewish community in Vienna.