1925

Photo of Star of David engraved in stone - surrounding the date the building on Shukri 11, Haifa, ended - is courtesy of Amit Mendelson.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.

Zoom in

Safed Postage Stamp

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.

Zoom in

Breslau Car

Breslau Dancers car decorated with Stars of David in Jerusalem near the Municipality Building at Safra Square on June 3rd 2008.

Breslau Dancer Pendant

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...

Fire Banners

Copyright: Anat Massad 2008

From: 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.

Zion Tattoo

See the Hebrew word Zion inside a Star of David on:

http://www.religioustattoos.net/Images/Star_of_David/star_of_david_5.jpg

Art & Artist, Aqiva Kenet Segan

Copyright: Aqiva Kenet Segan 2008

Aqiva Kenet Segan Wrote to me:

Attached: The Mira Steiner drawing with mosaic-in-progress. The mosaic has 3 sections glued down: the Star of David and bird on top and at the very bottom there's a section with broken tiles, rocks and an old animal bone of some sort I picked up from the dirt alongside roads by Jerusalem's old walled city. Once the entire mosaic imagery is glued down and in place then the daunting (!) task of grouting and dental-tool-breaking scraping begins. Mira Steiner, a beautiful young Jewish woman, was drowned in Croatia by Fascists.