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.
Yair Vardi drew this blunt caricature, that accuses the Israeli society and government of neglecting helpless Holocaust survivors.
Translation from Hebrew caption: In Israel there are about 260000 Holocaust survivors, third of them live in poverty.
The Yellow Badge is used here as an instant identifier of Holocaust survivors, and that’s why I publish it here.
Copyright © Yair Vardi 2008
Photo is courtesy of Bnei Brak artist, Nechama Golan. It took part in an art exhibition titled: Layers of Memory that was held in Zaritzky Artists House in Tel Aviv in 2007.
Photo is courtesy of the artist, Nechama Golan, who took a photograph of her own hand, and processed it in a computer in 2007. The work took part in an exhibition titled: Layers of Memory. When I look at it, I reflect about the Nazi salute, but during the Holocaust the Star of David was a symbol of weakness, and look how proud it is now, towards our 60th Independence Day. The two versions of the same image lead the interested spectator to make comparisons…
Copyright © Nechama Golan 2008
