- Object Name:
- Birth Record
- Artist/Maker:
- Mordecai Reicher
- Bio:
- American, b. Ukraine, 1865-1927
- Place Made:
- New York, New York, United States
- Date:
- c. 1919
- Medium:
- Ink and watercolor on cut-out paper
- Dimensions:
- 13 × 15 1/4 in. (33.0 × 38.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Phil and Norma Fine Foundation Fund
- Accession Number:
- 2000-30
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Mordecai Reicher was born in the Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1910. In this country he worked as a peddler until severe illness during the influenza epidemic of 1918 resulted in the loss of a leg. Incapacited, Reicher concentrated on teaching the Talmud and mastering of the traditional art of paper-cutting.
Reicher designed this record in honor of the births of his grandsons Shneider Zalman (b. 1919) and Abraham Solomon (b. 1923), and inscribed it with good wishes for the infants and their parents: "These are our offspring, may our sons live many days and years on the earth with much good. Amen."
Reicher designed this record in honor of the births of his grandsons Shneider Zalman (b. 1919) and Abraham Solomon (b. 1923), and inscribed it with good wishes for the infants and their parents: "These are our offspring, may our sons live many days and years on the earth with much good. Amen."
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