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.
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...
Copyright: Anat Massad 2008From: 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.
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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.
Art: Diptych Black & White
& Artist: Yael Elkayam
I shot this photo at Yigal Alon House, Safed, Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit,
30-4-2008.
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
30X30 cm
Acrylic on canvas
This is one of a series of paintings about the Yellow Badge
Photo of Star of David Shaped Hesder Yeshiva building in the Jewish settlement Neve Dekalim on a postal stamp that will be issued tomorrow is courtesy of stamp collector Dobush from Kfar Aza. Designer: illustrator & designer Aharon Shevo.
