DUBLIN (JTA) — Raphael Siev, the longtime curator of the Jewish Museum in Dublin, has died .
Siev, 73, a former Irish diplomat, died Wednesday morning after falling ill at a Holocaust commemoration event on Sunday.
He had served as curator of the Jewish Museum in Dublin, housed in a former synagogue, since its opening in 1985.
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