The story behind Kurt Adler ornaments When it comes to Christmas decorations, Kurt Adler is a household name. Here’s how the family behind the business is still spreading holiday cheer decades later.

The bear nutcracker stands at 10 inches and depicts the band’s dancing bear in blue wearing a festive holiday costume. An ornament is clutched in the bear’s hand. If you didn’t know, the dancing bear ...

Cliff Adler is the son of two German Jewish refugees. He is also co-president of one of the world’s largest Christmas ornaments business, a company founded and run for over half a century by those ...

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 effect on the look of what purports to be the most ...