Rachel Neiman | Israel21C

A few days before the eve of Hanukkah, educational website developer Jacob Richman was sitting with a friend and discussing the upcoming holiday. “He asked me if I know about the chanukiyot [Hanukkah menorah] collection in the Bukharim neighborhood in Jerusalem. I said: ‘I never heard of it’. He said: ‘You must go see it’. He gave me instructions on how to get there and he said he would call the owner to expect me”.

What Richman found in Shkhunat HaBukharim — Jerusalem’s Bukharim quarter, first settled by immigrants from Bukhara (now Uzbekistan) — was a huge and eclectic collection of Hanukkah menorahs spanning different eras and Jewish communities.

The collector, Shabtay Yossef, keeps the collection above his hardware store. Richman says “He probably has one of the largest chanukiyot collections in the world. He has chanukiyot from 75 countries.”

Read the full article here: https://www.israel21c.org/hanukkah-treasure-in-jerusalem/

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