This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Hebron Star
Photo of a Star of David carved above the entrance to an Arab home in the old city of Hebron is courtesy of William Frey who shot it in Summer 2005. On the basis of such evidence Jews in the settlements use to claim that they are resettling areas where Jews have lived.
Equating Stalinism And Jews
The Wirepuller Jew
Photo of Star of David on the belly of The Wirepuller Jew is courtesy of "ILoveMyPiccolo" who published it on Flickr. This image appears on a A pre-war Nazi poster exhibited in the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Germany
Tunisian Synagogue in Acre
Iranian Cartoon The Seed of Zionism
There's an anti-Semitic Iranian YouTube TV cartoon showing a Jewish Rabbi planting a Nazi swastika, watering it and watching it grow into the Star of David. What makes the the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism (or anti-Israel) is the Rabbi, which automatically jumps the religious connotation.
Kiddush Cup
Photo of Star of David etched on a Kiddush Cup (front and bottom) is courtesy of "Esa Einai" who published it on Flickr and wrote to me:
We bought this about 10 years ago at a store in a mall in Buckhead Georgia USA (a suburb of Atlanta Georgia). It is Waterford Crystal. We were shopping for a wedding present for my mom's cousin. We bought her a nice vase and we bought this for our family. It has Borei Pri Hagafen etched in Hebrew; a gold rim. We don't use this very often. Mostly we use my great-grandfather’s little silver Kiddush cup that he brought from the Old Country.