Less remarkable and yet important are the contributions made by local Jewish craftsmen.

The Hotel de Saint-Aignan in 1939 had become a refuge for Jewish craftsmen and traders from Poland, Russia and Hungary.

Just over 200 Jewish craftsmen were transferred to the ghetto in Nowogródek.

During the winter of 1941-1942, a team of Jewish craftsmen was sent to a military camp near Sereď to prepare the camp for Jewish labour draftees.

Another legend places Jewish craftsmen in the region as requested by Bilqis, the Queen of Saba (Sheba).

Harry spends the off-season in Florida, Keeping out of the sun and faxing missives to Jewish craftsmen in Vietnam to make more dreidels.

One innovation was the establishment of loan kassas, cooperative credit institutions that issued low interest loans to Jewish craftsmen and small business owners.

Thus, the Jewish craftsmen were required to pay membership fees to the guilds, but the guilds specified that they had no obligation to come to their aid.

Jewish craftsmen were, if nothing else, meticulous.

Ikats are 19th-century wall hangings and caftans once produced by Jewish and Muslim craftsmen in the ancient silk route cities of Bukhara and Samarkand.