Devin Naar pens article on how Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas-lights market

In his article “Christmas lights – brought to you by a Jew from the Muslim world,” published Dec. 21 in The Washington Post’s Made by History column, Devin Naar,  analyzes how Jews from the Ottoman Empire pioneered the Christmas-lights market a century ago — but nativism, antisemitism and Islamophobia obscured this history.