- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- object
- Physical Description
- Dreidl : Ht: 2 in. x W: 1 in.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- object
- Physical Description
- Dreidl : Ht: 2 in. x W: 1 in.
- Other Title Information
- Toy
- Date
- [Prior to 1940]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- One silver dreidl from Central Europe. Smallest in size; composed of two triangular panes with edges bent forward, soldered back-to-back with tip rising out of the join. Narrative: A dreidl is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: ? (Nun), ? (Gimel), ? (Hei), ? (Shin), which together form the acronym for "?? ???? ??? ??" (Nes Gadol Hayah Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters also form a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word nisht ("nothing"), Hei stands for halb ("half"), Gimel for gants ("all"), and Shin for shtel ayn ("put in").
- Accession No.
- 2014X.09.01
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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