Star of David on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. It most probably expresses the longing for the return of Israel to the Promised Land. The Hebrew caption is strange and looks like a mistake: If I’ll forget you, Diaspora…instead of: If I’ll forget you, Jerusalem.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Happy New Year Diaspora
Star of David on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. It most probably expresses the longing for the return of Israel to the Promised Land. The Hebrew caption is strange and looks like a mistake: If I’ll forget you, Diaspora…instead of: If I’ll forget you, Jerusalem.
Zion Gate Happy New Year Card
Star of David alongside the Ten Commandments on a Happy New Year Card from the beginning of the 19th century is from Hayim Shtayer’s excellent and famous collection of Happy New Year Cards. The troupes that march into Zion Gate express IMHO the expectation for the termination of the Diaspora Era. In those days it seemed contrary to any logic to even expect it, but as we all know the Return of Zion materialized. We can only draw encouragement from it to the peace in the Middle East …
To Childhood And Back
The painted bottle of Dvorit Ben Shaul and the porcelain six-pointed Star pendant that Dick Ben Dor brought me from Holland on my son’s car at the entrance to our house in the fresh snow, that made me feel like a child and experiment how things look when the known environment becomes odd.
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