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.
Star of David in the center of a tray surrounded by the verse from Psalms "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem". Jerusalem and the Star of David both represent the unity of the Jewish people and from this aspect are synonyms.
From Avraham Goren's private collection, Beit Zayit 38, 972779346197 972544826779
Yaakov Agam Sculpture bearing many Stars of David, which I photographed yesterday with the Knesset building in the background on 10 Diskin Street in Jerusalem. The proximity of the Knesset building to the statue from this point of view is due to the fact that the large valley between this two spots is hidden.
Artist Sabina Saad sent this painting to The Butterfly Project of the Holocaust Museum in Houston. The idea behind this project was to remember 1.5 million that perished during the Holocaust. Sabina added to her work a caption saying:
My butterfly is gray; it is not colorful like all the butterflies, because it is sad like the children that perished during the Holocaust. The only point of color is the yellow patch that instead of happiness adds sadness. Its life is short like all the butterflies’ and of the children that died in the holocaust. It does not fly and it looks like those butterflies that people collect and guard in frames.
This Candleholder inside a Star of David belongs to Avraham Goren's private collection, Beit Zayit 38, 972779346197 972544826779
Star of David on a candleholder from Avraham Goren's private collection, Beit Zayit 38, 972779346197 972544826779.
It seems that the producer made it BEFORE Uri Ofir came out with his theory about the origin of the Jewish six-pointed star from the Tabernacle Menorah candleholder.
Photo of an old house with a beer hexagram is courtesy of artist Amos Plaut who took it in Furth near Nurenberg, Germany. The house was used as an inn. In Germany the hexagram had been and still is a symbol of beer.
Copyright: Amos Plaut 2008
FÜRTH, Near Nurenberg, Germany
Half white half blue Star of David appears on this JNF Box from Avraham's private collection, Beit Zayit 38, 972779346197 972544826779.
