The Orthodox Jew With a Special Connection With Art

THE JERUSALEM POST
By Nadine Wojakovski

For a bespoke recreation, artist Shemariyahu Black was provided with an original picture of the buyer’s grandfather, the Dayan of Dinov.. (photo credit: RAPHAEL CHAIM ROSENFELD)

At just 17, Raphael Chaim Rosenfeld knew he was destined to be an art dealer. It was on his year off after high school, the only British student in an American Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Old City, when his calling came. Every day, during the very long lunch breaks while the students were playing baseball and eating burgers, he would walk through the gardens of Yemin Moshe, captivated by the pine trees and Montefiore Windmill. Rosenfeld, 24, grew up in London in an artistic family. His mother Naomi, who studied with sculptor Anish Kapoor at the Chelsea College of Arts, is an accomplished sculptress who has exhibited at Christie’s auction house. His father Clive, one of the founders and former co-chair of charity One Family UK, is a professional photographer. [More]