Creator Bio
Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
Little is known about Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker, a skilled artist who is credited as the creator of an ornate paper cut dated 1862.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Paper Cut—Brit Milah
Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…