- Object Name:
- Dreidel
- Artist/Maker:
- Michael Berkowicz
- Bio:
- Polish, b. Russia, 1944
- Artist/Maker:
- Bonnie Srolovitz-Berkowicz
- Bio:
- American, b. 1955
- Title:
- Executive Dreidel
- Place Made:
- New York, United States
- Date:
- 1993
- Medium:
- Brass: silver-plated and painted
- Dimensions:
- 2 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (5.1 × 3.8 × 3.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Judaica Acquisitions Fund
- Accession Number:
- 1993-248
- Copyright:
- Designed by Michael Berkowicz and Bonnie Srolovitz
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Ashkenazi Jews customarily play games on Hanukkah. One game is played with a spinning top called a dreidel. In the Diaspora, dreidels are decorated with the Hebrew initials for the phrase "A great miracle happened there"; in Israel, with the initials for "A great miracle happened here."
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