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.
Photo is courtesy of "fan dan ke" who published it on flickr and wrote to me:Its a painting, by whom i'm not sure, that was on display around june 2006 in the gallery room of a Synagogue in Shanghai, China. most of the works were a combination of chinese and Holocaust imagery, as most of the Jews in Shanghai arrived in the 1940s to escape the genocide.
Picture of this grass Magen David at Aruba, an island in the Caribbean Sea, is courtesy of "Aruban" from Flickr who wrote to me:The story behind it is that the star is of a farmer in Aruba in support of the country of Israel. Yearlong he produces figs.From seeing only the photo it is extremely hard to guess the story behind it. If I were a journalist I would have traveled to Aruba to interview the guy who made this grass star...
I got this pot-holder from my daughter. It is good also for drawing stars of David without using a ruler or compasses.
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter and photographer Yaacov_Kaszemacher, who created a series of Star of David paintings, each revealing another unknown aspect of this national symbol. Here we see a square with four triangles, made of cubes that fly in the sky without touching each other.
Photo of these colorful Stars of David on a blue background is courtesy of Yaacov Kaszemacher, French-born Israeli painter who was raised in a secular home, but after a spiritual awakening in 1971, immigrated to Israel, and became a Torah-observant Hassid.Contact
