![]() I am old enough to know that when I first traveled to Europe, dollar bills and cigarettes could get you almost anything you wanted. “I think further, this is conjecture, but I think it’s not bad conjecture, that Taubin was on a rabbinical salary, so he had dollar bills and he had access to American cigarettes. “And while Rabbi Taubin was there, he realized that there are lots of important pieces of Judaica in silver and brass that someone was going to melt down for their value because nobody was interested in them there were no Jews. They were just wandering the countryside. ![]() Displaced persons was the codeword for these people who had survived Nazi concentration camps, had no worldly goods and nowhere to go. “ was a rabbi who was sent by the Jewish Welfare Board to help resettle displaced persons. In the late 1970s, they gave the funds to purchase the collection of the late Isaac Taubin,” explained Musher. “It was purchased with funds donated by the Kaplan brothers, Mollie and Louis Kaplan, and Molly and Irvin Kaplan. Throughout the years, his love of Judaica grew, and so did the collection at Beth Yeshurun. “My family was very close friends with the Warburg family, and the Warburgs donated their home to create the Jewish Museum.” “My mother must have taken us there dozens of times when I was a kid, and in those days they showed all things Judaica,” Musher told the JHV. Love of Judaica came early to Musher, who grew up in the shadow of the Jewish Museum of New York. Under Musher’s keen eye, the collection has grown to nearly 750 pieces. To discover the provenance of a piece of Judaica takes knowledge, curiosity and patience. It’s a role that is part historian part detective. For nearly two decades, Daniel Musher has curated the Mollie and Louis Kaplan Museum of Judaica History at Congregation Beth Yeshurun.
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