Instead of bring a bottle of wine as a present to his dinner hosts, artist Chayim Rosov would give a piece of his Judaic Art. “My friends loved them,” He said. His latest offering was a Three Tier Seder Plate to the Jewish Museum of Florida competition where it too was well received. He won the first place award, a cash prize of $1,800, and his Three Tier Seder Plate will become part of the museum’s collection.
The plate, made of Lucite and silver, is about an 8-inch square. It has three compartments for matzoh and on top are the symbols of Passover.
Rosov, 73, or Boca Raton, had been a high school and college teacher but he always had a workshop in the basement of his Long Island home. “I liked fooling around with metal and woodworking,” he said. A dozen years ago, he was accepted at the master class at the New York Jewish Museum and worked with the master Yehudah Wolpert, and his protégé Moshe Zabari. The experience enriched him. “Wolpert was the foremost Judaic Silver sculptor in his day,” Rosov said. “He created many artifacts and he developed the straight line technique which I follow.
Judaic art deals with Jewish customs and traditions, he explains. Since specific artifacts are used for specific holidays, there’s a wealth of artifacts that can be created – The Eternal Light, the Tree of Life, Torah breast plates, wine goblets, spice boxes, etc. So when his wife, Riva, saw how well his work was |
