
In 2004 Uruguay issued a postage stamp commemorating 800 years since Moses Maimonides, the great physician, codifier and scholar. To mark his being a Jew, they replaced the letter “o” in his name with a Star of David.
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.
In 2004 Uruguay issued a postage stamp commemorating 800 years since Moses Maimonides, the great physician, codifier and scholar. To mark his being a Jew, they replaced the letter “o” in his name with a Star of David.
In 2004 Hungarian Postal Service issued a stamp to mark 60 years since the Holocaust. According to Jewish tradition visitors put a pebble (on the stamp we see it with the engraving of the Star of David) on the gravestone.
Holographer Shimon Hameiri visited 103 years old Star of David researcher Dr Ze'ev Goldmann and took this picture of him.
The content of this page moved to the new blog of Dr. Ze'ev Goldmann