- Object Name:
- Shiviti
- Artist/Maker:
- Zelig Segal
- Bio:
- Israeli, 1933-2015
- Place Made:
- Jerusalem (Israel)
- Date:
- 1997-2004
- Medium:
- Silver: pierced, ink on parchment; acrylic
- Dimensions:
- 11 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (29.2 × 24.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of SO Charitable Trust in honor of Seymour and Paul Milstein
- Accession Number:
- 2004-19
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Zelig Segal is among the most creative and thoughtful makers of Judaica working today. His shiviti plaque, a type of ceremonial object designed to be hung in the synagogue as a reminder of holiness, evokes the European papercut shivitis of past centuries, but in an entirely different medium and presentation.
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