Kurt Adler, who died Thursday at age 83, was the country’s best-known importer and wholesaler of upscale Christmas ornaments, a man who had a big ... tree was decked merely with tinsel, cheap glass ...

The Hanukkah ornaments, a collection of painted glass baubles that sparkle blue ... they are a tiny corner of his father’s eponymous business, Kurt S. Adler, Inc. Once a refugee who fled the ...