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November 1, 2021

The Man Collecting and Preserving the Everyday Objects of East European Jewry

Arthur Kurzweil’s 4,000 dreidels.

In a trip to Poland in 2015, Arthur Kurzweil discovered a network of East European amateur archaeologists on the lookout for buried historical objects—and found out that there are countless dreidels under the soil. He then began a collection that now includes some 4,000 of the Hanukkah toys, as well as numerous other realia too quotidian to get the attention of most museums. Shira Hanau reports:

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