Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Yellow Badge in Berlin
Photo is courtesy of "Smutchings" who published it on Flickr under the title Labelled Jew. Smutchings doesn’t say it but I reckon he shot it in Berlin Holocaust Museum. Eventhough the badge is white on black it is evident that it was yellow when the picture was taken. The photo has a powerful impact not only because it is powerful but also because it is exhibited in Berlin, the capital city of the Evil Empire of the Third Reich.
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Yellow Badge
Monday, July 16, 2007
Stars of Mary
Photo is courtesy of Wikipedia; entry: Hamburg.I bring these hexagrams in the coat Of arms of Hamburg as an example for the prevalent usase of hexagrams in European heraldry.
English star
David W. Lange, an expert on American Numismatic wrote an article titled Seeing Stars were he sheds light about the usage of six-pointed stars on American coins:
In American numismatics the mullet is sometimes referred to as an American star, while the six-pointed version is described as an English star, but I've not been able to find any definitive source for such usage.
The so-called English star predominates on 18th and 19th Century United States coins, but it gave way to the American star for most 20th Century issues. Charles Barber's quarter dollar and half dollar of 1892 appear to have been transitional, as they feature six-pointed stars on the obverse and five-pointed ones on the reverse…
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Jerusalem Day
Photo of Star of David on a poster for Jerusalem Day is courtesy of illustrator and artist Sabina Saad. The poster was made in 1994 for the Israeli Information Ministry and for the Education Ministry.Sabina works in her studio at Ramot Meir, Israel, and you can call her on the phone 97289410231
Copyrights: Sabina Saad 2007
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Sabina Saad
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Menorah on a Star of David
Photo of Menorah on a Star of David in Mt. Herzl is courtesy of "KRS Juan" who published it on Flickr.
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Crimean Tatars
In Bakhchisaray Small Khan Mosque above the mihrab there's a stained-glass window decorated with a Solomon's Seal sign. The Crimean Tatars used this symbol also on their gravestones, coins and jewelery.
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Solomon’s seal
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