{{Short description|Israeli artist (1935–2025)}} '''Moshe Zabari''' ({{Langx|he|משה זבארי}}; 1935–2025) was an Israeli artist known for his silver Judaica.
==Life and career== Zabari was born in Jerusalem in 1935.<ref name=TorahCrownDesigns>{{cite news|title=Unique Torah crown designs to replace 9 stolen ones|publisher=The Jewish Week|date=3 January 1982}}</ref> He studied under Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert and David Gumbel at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.<ref name=Sherman>{{cite news|last1=Sherman|first1=Randi|title=The Joy Of Alloy|publisher=The Jewish Week|date=14 September 2007}}</ref><ref name=Blank>{{cite news|last1=Blank|first1=Barbara Trainin|title=The art of Menorahs; Diverse shapes now light way|publisher=The Patriot-News|date=11 December 2001}}</ref><ref name=TheJewishMuseum>{{cite web|title=Moshe Zabari|url=http://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/17947-hanukkah-lamp-masada|website=thejewishmuseum.org|publisher=Jewish Museum|accessdate=15 October 2015}}</ref>
He was artist-in-residence for almost three decades at New York's Jewish Museum.<ref name=Poley>{{cite news|last1=Poley|first1=Rita Rosen|title=Sketches: The Art of the Deal - and the Deal of the Art|publisher=Jewish Exponent|date=15 July 1999}}</ref> He returned to his native Israel in the 1980s.<ref name=Sherman/> He was known for his modernist approach, a reviewer described his 1998 sculpture, "Death by Stoning," as "elegant and beautiful," despite describing a "terrible act of violence."<ref name=Knaff/>
In 1990 he was awarded the Jesselson Prize for Contemporary Judaica Design.<ref name=Ronnen>{{cite news|last1=Ronnen|first1=Meir|title=Sandberg Rrize for Gabi Klasmer|publisher=Jerusalem Post|date=6 September 1990}}</ref>
In 2015 Zabari was honoured with a Retrospective at the Jerusalem Biennale.<ref name=Retrospective>{{cite web|title=Retrospective|url=http://www.jerusalembiennale.org/moshe-zabari/|website=jerusalembiennale.org|publisher=Jerusalem Biennale|accessdate=15 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=SheaJerusalem>{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Christopher|title=Jerusalem Biennale|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/whats-on-this-week-around-the-world-42/|accessdate=13 October 2015|work=New York Times|date=18 September 2015}}</ref>
Zabari died in 2025.<ref>{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Moshe Zabari (1935–2025) |url=https://www.facebook.com/BLMJ.Eng/posts/in-memoriam-moshe-zabari-1935-2025the-bible-lands-museum-jerusalem-mourns-the-pa/1293494439491144/ |website=Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem on Facebook |access-date=22 March 2026 |date=30 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Moshe Zabari |url=https://collections.thejewishmuseum.org/artist/moshe-zabari-b-1935-jerusalem-d-2025-israel |website=The Jewish Museum |access-date=22 March 2026}}</ref>
==Museum exhibitions== * ''Homecoming to the Holy Land: New Works by Moshe Zabari,'' Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, 1999.<ref name=Poley/><ref name=Gardner>{{cite news|last1=Gardner|first1=Colin|title=Ceremonial Objects by a Craftsman|work=Los Angeles Times|date=2 January 1987}}</ref> * ''Homecoming to the Holy Land: New Work by Moshe Zabari,'' Skirball Museum, 1998.<ref name=Knaff>{{cite news|last1=Knaff|first1=Devorah|title=Genesis of a Nation|publisher=Orange County Register|date=26 April 1998}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zabari, Moshe}} Category:1935 births Category:2025 deaths Category:Israeli male sculptors Category:Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni