Scribe, N.Y.C.

Seymour Edelstein

1988

Photograph depicting man in kippah, gloves, and glasses and holding a pen examining a Torah scroll upon which sits two tefillin boxes.
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Seymour Edelstein

1923–2001

After a career as a graphic designer in Los Angeles, Chicago–born Seymour Edelstein turned to photography, documenting shopkeepers and other people in their workplaces. His work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Edelstein taught at the Otis-Parsons School of Design and the University of California.

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