Birth Record
Mordecai Reicherc. 1919
The Jewish Museum, New York
New York, United States
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."
- Title: Birth Record
- Creator: Mordecai Reicher
- Date Created: c. 1919
- Location: New York, United States, North and Central America
- Physical Dimensions: 13 × 15 1/4 in. (33.0 × 38.7 cm)
- Type: Ceremonial Art
- Rights: https://thejewishmuseum.org/about-this-site#terms-conditions
- External Link: View this object at thejewishmuseum.org
- Medium: Ink and watercolor on cut-out paper
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