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Shraga Landesman is an Israeli-born artist based in Haifa. He was born in 1954 and studied painting and sculpture at Oranim College of Art and in Tel-Hai College. His work is widely exhibited in Jewish Museums in New York, Paris, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. Shraga considers as his sources of spiritual muse, the Bible and the ancient cultures of Haifa, a city famous for the Bahai Gardens.

His aluminum Judaica and Jewish gifts are frequently embossed with Hebrew text in an angular, ancient-styled script. Among the models of his work are hanukkah menorahs, Shabbat candlesticks, Mezuzah cases and Jewish wedding gifts.

Landesman’s career began in the field of photography where he made his name known, but upon becoming thirty-years-old or so, in the 1980′s he travelled to Europe looking to expand his creative horizons; there he became entranced by the sculptures of various ancient cultures.

Upon arriving again in Haifa he found a way to fuse his new-found passion for sculpture with his love of the ancient culture’s of the Holy Land.

Starting in 1996, Shraga dedicated all of his creativity to the creation of items of Judaica.