A cup or beaker for wine used during the Kiddush prayer, recited for the Sabbath and Festivals.
Some kiddush cups have a saucer underneath them.
The Recitation of Kiddush.
Braunstein, Susan L. Le-Hayyim – To Life! Cups of Sanctification and Celebration. New York: Jewish Museum New York, 1984.
Goldman-Ida, Batsheva. “Hasidic Wine Cup.” Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 83-117.
Greenstein, Jonathan. A Lost Art: Handmade Silver Kiddush Cups of Eastern Europe. Brooklyn: J. Greenstein, 2005.
Kuntoš, Jaroslav, “Cups and Beakers.” Silver Judaica: From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Prague: Židovské muzeum v Praze, 2012, pp. 239-57.
Sperber, Daniel. Minhagei Yisrael: Mekorot ve-Toldot [Israeli Customs: Origins and History], ed. Daniel Sperber, vol. 6, Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1998, pp. 125-28.
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