Background
Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemyśl, Austria-Hungary.
Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemyśl, Austria-Hungary.
In 1924-1933, he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris.
He emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919. Stone sculptures by Ziffer are on display at the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in Safed to the Safed Municipality.
He left his home in Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University.
Ziffer died in 1989 in Tel Aviv. 1938, "Unknown Pioneer", at New York International Fair Memorial in honour of the breakthrough at the Burma Road, Hulda Sculpture Garden, Safed 1958, "Lot"s Wife", Brussels International Exhibition Ziffer sculpted busts of Albert Einstein, David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann.
Memorial in honour of the fighters of the Givati Brigade and members of Kibbutz Nitzanim killed in the Israeli War of Independence, 1948.