Six

Photo is courtesy of artist Aviva Beigel
Acrilic on wood
55x40 cm
A green Star of David with an image of a human being on each point - for the six milion Jews that were killed through World War II.
Copyrights: Aviva Beigel 2007

This work is taking part in the Yellow Holocaust Star Exhibit at Yigal Alon House, Safed, which started on 30-4-2008. Curator: Reli Wasser.

Technique: Mosaic and mix media on wood.

The Yellow Patch is going through transformation, it changes its color to gold.

Gold appears in the mosaics of the Early Byzantine Art as a color of holiness. In my work it signifies the holiness of Jewish people that were murdered in the Holocaust Each one of the figures standing on the Magen David symbolizes one million Jews.

The wall in the background is a reminder to the " Wall" in Jerusalem, the ultimate symbol of Judaism

Aviva Beigel Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.

Painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaic.

Exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

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Jewish Amazon

Photo is courtesy of artist Aviva Beigel
acrilic on wood
40x40 cm
Aviva wrote to me that it is one of four works in which she dealt with the subject of amazons as an expression of feminine power. This project has also a reference to Merlin Monroe’s four portraits (Merlin also represents feminine power), and a reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, which is also encircled.
Aviva Beigel was born in 1952 and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Copyright: Aviva Beigel 2007

Hexagram on a Muslim Coin

Solomon's seal is engraved on a rare Muslim Coin.
Courtesy of Shlomo Moussaieff, collector of Biblical archaeology items.
Copyright: Shlomo Moussaieff 2008

Stained Glass Hexagram

Christian stained glass hexagram on the window of Trinity Anglican Church, Ontario, Cambridge, Canada. Photo is courtesy of "monicaphotos" who published it on Flickr.

Stained glass window in Lincoln Cathedral, England

 CC Picture by victor408
 from Flickr

The Doll with the Yellow Star

Yona Zeldis McDonough wrote a book titled The Doll with the Yellow Star. It tells about Claudine,  a Jewish girl who lives in France during World War II. Her parents try to keep her life normal and  buy her a  doll.  After the Germans order Jews to wear the yellow star, Claudine  sews  a yellow star on her doll's cloths.

 

Rabbi’ s Seal from Spanish Inquisition Period

This is a seal of a Rabbi, in the shape of a Magen David, and it is from the Spanish Inquisition period . In other words it is not later than the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and no sooner than 13th century, when the Inquisition was founded.
This is a very rare item but there were other Magen David items from that period, as Gershom Scholem wrote in his article about the origin of the Star of David , which was published in the Encyclopedia Judaica:

The ornamental use of the hexagram continued in the Middle Ages, especially in Muslim and Christian countries. The kings of Navarre used it on their seals (10th and 11th centuries) and (like the pentagram) it was frequently employed on notaries’ signs in Spain, France, Denmark, and Germany, by Christian and Jewish notaries alike. Sometimes drawn with slightly curved lines.

Rachel Ben Hur, Hear O Israel

Photo is courtesy of intuitive painter Rachel Ben Hur. The painting is titled “Shema Israel” [Hear O Israel, in Hebrew] which is the name of perhaps the most famous of all Jewish prayers:

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One

Rachel told me that for her this prayer is a connection to a source of spiritual power.

Copyright: Rachel Ben Hur, 2007
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