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.
Picture of Star of David on a poster calling to protest against the opression of Soviet Jewry is courtesy of pictorial history collector Stephanie Comfort
who published it on Flickr
Photo of radiating hexagram on top of an Augustinian emblem is courtesy of "Evissa' who published it on Flickr. Photo was taken at Costa de la Luz, Spain. friendsofsanroque commented on Evissa’s webpage:This is an AGUSTINIAN EMBLEM:
a BiBle
a Heart Pierced with an arrow
and the CORREA, the cincture that was given by the Blessed Virgin Mary
Photo of Star of David Diaspora sculpture is courtesy of Ken Kalman from Canyon, California. It was created in 2004
Size: 13 x 13 x 2.25 in.
Ken Kalman was Born in 1955.
Ken wrote to me:
The sculpture is made of aluminum sheet and covered with a map of the universe. The map is riveted onto the Star of David that I fabricated. The piece is a metaphor, that Jews are everywhere.
I wonder how would this sculpture look like after the return of the Jews to Zion…
Another view of Yevu Yashir booth selling Sukkah decorations and Star of David lanterns at the Yishpro Center in Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem yesterday.
Yevu Yashir Sukkah decorations and Star of David lanterns at the Yishpro Center in Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem.
Picture is courtesy of my favorite graphic artist Jennie Gottschalk who lives in New Zealand.Till now you saw rectangular and sometimes triangular stamps but admit it that you have never seen Star of David shaped stamp. I just hope that the Israeli Postal Stamp Service people will notice this unique design and embrace it for next Independence Day. The balloons are made of micrographic Hebrew letters of the national anthem.
I asked Jennie how did she make the balloons and she wrote to me:
I used Paint Shop Pro to create the balloons. I started by drawing a vector line and then mapped the text onto it. I then saved the balloon, removed the text and replaced it with new text. For the one balloon, I mirrored the balloon and then added the text. It was not too hard. Just took a bit of time. After creating last year's Yom HaZikaron graphic ("A handful of names"), this was very simple.copyright: Jennie Gottschalk 2007
Photo of Flower arrangement in the shape of a Star of David is from a book with 12 pressed and dried flowers from Jerusalem by Atallah Georges Frères; published around 1898.
