I am very proud to present here a picture of a tiny six-pointed star on an ancient (probably Early Muslim) glass jar courtesy of Shlomo Moussaieff, collector of Biblical archaeology items.
Copyright: Shlomo Moussaieff 2008
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Christopher D. Horn found a video on YouTube: Water Sound Images, which includes what looks like a star of David created from a water droplet on a pan that is vibrated at varying frequencies.
I imagine that this video shows what happens when H is trying to (2) warn O that they are vibrated on a pan:)
Picture of a Star of David on a poster of The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier is courtesy of Dobush from Kfar Aza, Israel. The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier was founded in the 1930th and operated until the end of WWII.
Star of David on a music disc manufactured by Kol (Hebrew: Voice of) Zion Record Company, which was founded by B. Rosenberg in 1946 at Netania. Picture is courtesy of Benny Tamari .
Star of David on a colorful canvas.
Artist: Sabina Saad (Yellow Badge series)
Size: 20 X 20 cm.
Concept: Communist Jews (red), environmentalist Jews (green) are considered by their governments to be first and foremost Jews, no matter what their other affiliations are.
Title: Color Doesn't Matter – you’ll always be a Jew
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Six Yellow Badges marking 6,000,000 casualties.
Hexagram shaped screw; Most probably it's manufacturer didn't have any religious intentions.
Many Stars of David engraved on a Mizrach (Hebrew: East) which is a decorated Jewish sign indicating the direction of Jerusalem.
Photographed by Michal Shtayer
Copyright: Michal Shtayer
Place: Joles Home For The Elderly, Haifa, Israel
Yehoshua Zlotnik sent me a picture of yellow Stars of David on a bowl that he keeps at his home for more than 40 years. Diameter: 31 cm.
Copyright: Yehoshua Zlotnik 2008
Picture of a hexagram on a coin used by Mount Sinai Royal Arch Chapter no. 212 in Toronto was sent to me by a friend who wrote to me that:
The symbol on the bottom right is the "Ark of the Covenant". The bottom left is a "Keystone" which is a central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together. Top left symbol stands for "Templum Hierosolyma". The top right "Scripture". In the middle on the right side are the Tiler's "sword" and Master Mason's "trowel". In the middle on the left side are the working tools of a Royal Arch Mason; the "crow", "pickax", and "spade". In the middle is Moshe Rabbeinu with the Ten Commandments.
Star of David "I Swear" medal from kibbutz Tzeelim Musem.
Copyright: Boaz Krechmer 2008
The museum shows metal works from the beginning of the previous century starting with works of Boaz’s grandfather, Samuel Krechmer, who was the main manufacturer of coins medals and emblems in Israel. The words I Swear Not to Leave Israel are taken from the biblical verses of the Spies Affair in the Book of Numbers. Although the medal is antique the message is actual.
Lion on a Star of David.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Seven golden Stars of David on a white six-pointed star.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Menorah on a Star of David Flag Proposal.
On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Three Stars of David mark the absence of the Three Israeli Captives in Amili Gelbman’s work titled The Three Sons. Since the work was exhibited in March 2007 Kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser bodies were returned to Israel, but we are still praying for the return of Ron Arad and Gilad Shalit.
Copyright: Amili Gelbman 2008
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on its website in 1998 the Logo of the Year of Zionism which
consists of six colored triangular sections composing the Star of David. Each triangle of the logo, which was selected by the Israeli public, symbolizes a different aspect of the Zionist experience:
* A blue and white triangle symbolizing the Israeli flag;
* A red arrow pointing to the East - the "mizrah" and referring to the future;
* An orange triangle representing the desert and efforts to make the desert bloom;
* A triangle with purple dots representing the grapes brought back by the spies who scouted the Land of Israel and found a "land of milk and honey";
* The Hebrew letter "aleph" representing the rebirth of the Hebrew language; and
* The green sabra plant which has come to symbolize the modern Israeli.
Star of David Mess photo was taken by Hayim Shtayer at the exhibition of the graduate students of the department for graphic design in the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa where he lectures.
Designed this mess logo (expressing the messy situation in which the Israeli State finds itself on its 60th birthday) Maya Sarfati, one of these graduate students,
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
Courtesy of: Maya Sarfati
Star of David appears on an old Torah Coat.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
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The Maccabiah Postage Stamp designers demonstrated along the years their original talent to view the Star of David in a new light. Here we see the number 13 as a main element in the construction of our national emblem. Photo is courtesy of Gideon from the Israeli Stamp collector’s Forum “collect”.
Issued: 1989
Designers: Dan Reisinger, Rafi Dayagi, M. Gali
Star of David appears on the cover of a 40 Page book titled Theodor Herzl written by Dr. Osias Thon, Issued in Berlin.
Jehoshua Osias Thon (1870-1936), was Lvov community’s Rabbi, a Zionist leader, and a member of the Polish Parliament.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
I got this photo from Menachem, owner of an Israeli bookstore called Simple Books- Josef-inheritance.
Copyright: Simple Books 2008
David Wallersteiner, Menachem’s father grandfather, drew it in 1935 in Palestine for Sabbath Nachamu, which is the Sabbath after the 9th of Av.
Size:14cm X 18cm
The Star of David here looks more religious than national.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Star of David appears on an antique (late 1940’s) mold manufactured by Josef Wallersteiner for Hakishut (the decoration) company, metalwork, Bezalel style, 1936-66.
Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,
Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il
Die geheimnisse der weisen von zion weisen in deutscher sprache herausgegeben von gottfried zur beek verlag frz. eher nachf, Munchen 1933, soft cover 72 page Copyright: Simple Books 2008
Dobush from Kar Aza, Israel referred me to this photo of a Star of David on the cover of Max Brod’s book, Reubeni Furst Der Juden (Prince of the Jews), Munchen, 1925. The book is offered for sell at an Israeli bookstore called Simple Books/josef-inheritance. (Copyright: Simple Books 2008).
The reason the Star of David appears on this book cover is, most probably, that legends tell about David HaReubeni, 16th century Jewish leader who had a flag with the Star of David on it. Some say that the Magen David’s name came from David HaReubeni and not from Biblical King David.
From Wikipedia entry Max Brod
Max Brod (May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968) was an Austrian (later Czech) author, composer, and journalist of Jewish origin, later settled in Israel.
From: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6541458.html
Halter, Marek. The Messiah. Toby. Apr. 2008. c.485p. tr. from French by Lauren Yoder. ISBN 978-1-59264-216-8. $24.95. F
The author of both historical fiction (e.g., The Wind of the Khazars) and religious fiction (see the following review) turns to the 16th century and a little-known crusade by a Jewish prince who went to Italy to marshal support for a Jewish state in what is now modern-day Israel. David Reubeni, the prince of Chabor, claims that he is one of the descendants of the tribe of Reuben (one of the ten tribes out of 12 that disappeared from history). He is a prodigious scholar, a military genius, and an enigmatic figure in his white woolen tunic with the Star of David emblazoned on the front. After passing through deserts and traveling by ship from Arabia, he arrives in Venice and finds the Jews there and in other cities living in ghettos, impoverished and longing for the messiah to relieve their misery. Reubeni refuses their adoration and the appellation of messiah. He wants to establish a land where Jews can live in peace and to convince Pope Clement II of his mission; the key to his strategy is a Judeo-Christian alliance that could counter the growing influence of Islam across the Mediterranean. This exciting and well-researched book is highly recommended.—Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, MD
Star of David on a Holy Ark Curtain (Parochet) from Italian Conegliano Veneto Synagogue, which had been erected in 1701. The whole Synagogue was transferred to Israel in 1952, and is exhibited at the Italian Jews Museum on 27 Hillel St. Jerusalem Israel 97226241610
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Copyright: U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art 2008
Star of David on a splendid silver Italian Hanukkah candlestick from the Italian Jews Museum on 27 Hillel St., Jerusalem, Israel.
Contact: jija@netvision.net.il 97226241610
Copyright: U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art 2008
Star of David with the number 14 that marks the 14th Maccabiah
Issued on 29/06/1993
Designer: Danny Zilberman
Photo of a Star of David on the flag of the first pre-Israeli merchant navy, Emanuel, was sent to me by Dobush from Kar Aza, Israel, who found it on Hebrew Wikipedia entry: Emanuel (ship)
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Star of David made from diagonal lines.
Issued on 5/5/81
Designer: Moshe Pereg
Star of David made from very colorful lines that compose the Hebrew letter Mem which is the initial of Maccabiah
Issued on 03/05/1973
Designer: Dan Reisinger
Star of David painted on a torch that reminds the Olympic Torch (since the Maccabiah is the Jewish Olympiad).
Issued on 9.7.69
Designer: Eliezer Weishoff
Photo of a Star of David on the back wall of Ness Ziona Synagogue is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The Synagogue was built in the 1920’s.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008
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Photo of a Star of David on the front wall of Ness Ziona Synagogue is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The Synagogue was built in the 1920’s.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008
See more Star of David photos by Amit Mendelson
Photo of a pattern of Star of David Shapes each made from twelve rhombs on an Israeli postal stamp that had been issued in 26.2.1953 is courtesy of stamp collector Dobush from Kfar Aza. Designer: Otte Wallish
From Wikipedia entry - Otte Wallish:
Otte Wallish
1903-1977
- was an émigré to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state. Wallish was born in Vienna and emigrated to Palestine in 1934, a time of increasing peril for the Jews of Austria... During the 1930's and 1940's, Wallish worked on artistic arrangement, statistical graphs and other design aspects for books. In 1929, his own book was published, ABC: Ein Bilderbuch.
Blue Star of David on a white armband as part of a work created by Akiva Kenet Segan
Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008
From:
http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/Gallery%20Page%203.htm
Photo plates from the "Wooden Synagogues" book, portions of which were used to draw images depicted in the young man's torso between his shirt collar and arms folded across his chest. In the Wooden Synagogue book photo above, there are five flying birds in the synagogue wall-painting towards the upper left of the photo. In the artwork, the birds were painted above the violin - seen directly below the man's left arm - seen on viewer's right. Photo (below at left) of the Torah parchment from the book 'The Last Jews of Eastern Europe.' Photo at lower right of detail of a wooden synagogue wall, some of which was drawn in the torso area of Young Man with Star....
The yellow patch was not uniform in all the places under the Third Reich regime and at least at the start there were a few blue Stars of David on a white arm band. It was somewhat like precursor of the Israeli flag.
Star of David as part of a work created by Akiva Kenet Segan
Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008
From:
http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/images/4lody.jpg
UWG Art No. 21
The child victims portrayed in this mixed media piece were drawn from Warsaw Ghetto photos - the child at viewers left from a photo by Nazi soldier Heinz Jost [see also UWG Drawings No. 7, 9, and 33]. Josts caption for the photo stated:
On the sidewalk in a side street I saw this tiny child who could no longer pull himself upright. The passers-by didn't stop. There were too many children like this one. Lody means ice cream in Polish. Store signs seen in Warsaw Ghetto photos pre-date the Nazi occupation and the sealing in of the ghetto. I was struck, living in Seattle ~ with my home city's close proximity to Alaska and Native American culture, by the incongruity of a store sign in the Warsaw Ghetto for Eskimo brand ice-cream.
Akiva Kenet Segan drew this Star of David on the Muranow Street Trolley Car in the Warsaw Ghetto
Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008
From:
http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/UWings%20Art%20Gallery.htm
Drawn from a photo in the book The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 45th Anniversary (Interpress, Warsaw, 1988) this drawing became the first drawing of the Under the Wings of G-D series. The photo is in the chapter Life in the Ghetto.
I was struck by the three figures: the conductor and two men on either side of the of the front of the trolley, all of whom, I contemplated, probably went up in smoke in the gas chambers or died in the ghetto, itself a concentration camp where over one-hundred thousand people died in 1941. The trolley itself would have been removed by the Nazi's for its valuable metal.
The two wings were drawn on subsequent visits to the Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Yigal Tomarkin statue at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv with the Hebrew word for Remember under a Star of David.
Yigal Tomarkin statue at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv with the first letter of the word "Jude", which was written on the Yellow Badge.
The logo of Ezer Mizion organization contains the the Hebrew letters Ayin (Ezer) and Mem (Mizion) on the shape of the Star of David.
From: http://www.ezermizion.com/About_Ezer_Mizion/
Ezer Mizion, the Israel Health Support Organization, offers an extensive range of medical and social support services to help Israel's sick, disabled, elderly and underprivileged populations. Since its founding in 1979, Ezer Mizion has grown to become one of the largest non-profit organizations in Israel, benefiting over 650,000 people every year.
I have no idea what are these Stars of David for, but they convey the meaning of private (not commercial or institutional) relationship to our national emblem.
Photo of a yellow Shield of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is at Shukri 11 in Haifa.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
Photo of a decorated Gate with a Star of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is in front of the building in Zebulon 11 in Haifa.
Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.
Safed Postage Stamp from 1948 decorated with Stars of David is published here courtesy of Itamar Karpovski. Designed by the legendary illustrator Aryeh Moskovich.
From Wikipedia / Postal history of Palestine:
In the town of Safed, the departure in April of the British left the Haganah trying to establish control. The Haganah enlisted a postal clerk to print up postal envelopes, which were never used, as well as 2,200 stamps (10 mils each). On the stamps was written, in Hebrew: Safed mail Eretz Israel. Once stamped, mail was routed by the Haganah through Rosh Pina. These Safed emergency stamps were the only ones issued by the Haganah.
Breslau Dancers car decorated with Stars of David in Jerusalem near the Municipality Building at Safra Square on June 3rd 2008.
I met this Breslau Dancer with his large Star of David pendant in Jerusalem near the Municipality Building at Safra Square on June 3rd 2008, and he let me take this photo of him and his Star of David pendant. I don't think all Breslau followers treat the Star of David as this dancer does - it seems like a private initiative...
Copyright: Anat Massad 2008From: Dr. Batya Brutin, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: "Second Generation" Israeli Artists" in the catalogue exhibition: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: "Second Generation" Israeli Artists, Budapest: Peter Wilhelm Art Projects, p. 23
A different approach to the number we see in Anat Massad's work A-22761 from the exhibition Please Come with White Shirts of 2003 which features her mother's camp number. The work is composed from digital photographs of fire banners, which she set on fire in an open field at a fire ceremony she held. The fire banners included a Star of David as the symbol of the Jewish people and the number A-22761, which simultaneously symbolizes Auschwitz and her mother's private fate both in the camp and her hardships in integrating into Israeli society. She also included short phrase to express the personal and general connection between the Holocaust and the establishment and rebuilding of the state of Israel and her parents contribution to the building of the State.
