Moshe Ziffer ( he, משה ציפר; 24 April 1902 – 9 April 1989) was an Israeli

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and sculptor.

Biography

Moshe Ziffer was born in 1902 in

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, Austria-Hungary. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919. In 1924–33, he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Stone sculptures by Ziffer are on display at the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in

Safed Safed (known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardi Hebrew, Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation, Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), i ...

to the Safed Municipality. He left his home in Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University.Ziffer House Archives
/ref> Ziffer died in 1989 in Tel Aviv.

Awards and recognition

Albert Einstein said of Ziffer:"''Du bist ein Ziffer und ich bin Ein stein aber du arbeitest mit stein und ich arbeite mit ziffern''" ("You are a figure (''ziffer''—figure, digit, number) and I am a stone (''ein stein'') but you work with stone and I work with figures"). Einstein also described his work as "simple and noble as the man who created it." In 1947–48, Ziffer was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in Sculpture, for his design of a wall at Haganah House, Tel Aviv.

Environmental sculptures

*1938, "Unknown Pioneer", at

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International Fair *Memorial in honour of the breakthrough at the Burma Road, Hulda *Memorial in honour of the fighters of the

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and members of

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Nitzanim killed in the

1947–1949 Palestine war The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and ...

, *Sculpture Garden, Safed *1958, "Lot's Wife", Brussels International Exhibition

Portrait busts

Ziffer sculpted busts of Albert Einstein, David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann.

References

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