Thursday, July 31, 2008

Glass Jar


I am very proud to present here a picture of a tiny six-pointed star on an ancient (probably Early Muslim) glass jar courtesy of Shlomo Moussaieff, collector of Biblical archaeology items.
Copyright: Shlomo Moussaieff 2008
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Water Sound Images

Christopher D. Horn found a video on YouTube: Water Sound Images, which includes what looks like a star of David created from a water droplet on a pan that is vibrated at varying frequencies.

I imagine that this video shows what happens when H is trying to (2) warn O that they are vibrated on a pan:)


The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier

Picture of a Star of David on a poster of The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier is courtesy of Dobush from Kfar Aza, Israel. The National Committee for the Jewish Soldier was founded in the 1930th and operated until the end of WWII.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Kol Zion Record Company

Star of David on a music disc manufactured by Kol (Hebrew: Voice of) Zion Record Company, which was founded by B. Rosenberg in 1946 at Netania. Picture is courtesy of Benny Tamari .

Monday, July 28, 2008

The Color of the Jews

Star of David on a colorful canvas.

Artist: Sabina Saad (Yellow Badge series)

Size: 20 X 20 cm.

Concept: Communist Jews (red), environmentalist Jews (green) are considered by their governments to be first and foremost Jews, no matter what their other affiliations are.

Title: Color Doesn't Matter – you’ll always be a Jew

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Sunday, July 27, 2008

6,000,000 Casualties

Six Yellow Badges marking 6,000,000 casualties.
Background: stripes of concentration camp uniforms.
Acrylic on canvas and Yellow Badges cut from cloth.
Size: 70/80 cm.
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Six-Pointed Screw

Hexagram shaped screw; Most probably it's manufacturer didn't have any religious intentions.
Picture by: Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Friday, July 25, 2008

Copper Mizrach With Stars of David

Many Stars of David engraved on a Mizrach (Hebrew: East) which is a decorated Jewish sign indicating the direction of Jerusalem.

Photographed by Michal Shtayer

Copyright: Michal Shtayer

Place: Joles Home For The Elderly, Haifa, Israel

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pattern of Stars of David, Bowl


Yehoshua Zlotnik sent me a picture of yellow Stars of David on a bowl that he keeps at his home for more than 40 years. Diameter: 31 cm.

Copyright: Yehoshua Zlotnik 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Free Masons Coin with Hexagram

Picture of a hexagram on a coin used by Mount Sinai Royal Arch Chapter no. 212 in Toronto was sent to me by a friend who wrote to me that:

The symbol on the bottom right is the "Ark of the Covenant". The bottom left is a "Keystone" which is a central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together. Top left symbol stands for "Templum Hierosolyma". The top right "Scripture". In the middle on the right side are the Tiler's "sword" and Master Mason's "trowel". In the middle on the left side are the working tools of a Royal Arch Mason; the "crow", "pickax", and "spade". In the middle is Moshe Rabbeinu with the Ten Commandments.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I Swear Not to Leave Israel

Star of David "I Swear" medal from kibbutz Tzeelim Musem.

Copyright: Boaz Krechmer 2008

The museum shows metal works from the beginning of the previous century starting with works of Boaz’s grandfather, Samuel Krechmer, who was the main manufacturer of coins medals and emblems in Israel. The words I Swear Not to Leave Israel are taken from the biblical verses of the Spies Affair in the Book of Numbers. Although the medal is antique the message is actual.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Lion with a Star of David Israeli Flag Proposal

Lion on a Star of David.

On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Flag Proposal-2

Seven golden Stars of David on a white six-pointed star.

On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Flag Proposal-1


Menorah on a Star of David Flag Proposal.

On May-June 1947 The Temporary Israeli Government published an add calling for proposals for the design of the Israeli flag. They got 164 proposals and here is one of them.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Saturday, July 19, 2008

The Three Israeli Captives


Three Stars of David mark the absence of the Three Israeli Captives in Amili Gelbman’s work titled The Three Sons. Since the work was exhibited in March 2007 Kidnapped soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser bodies were returned to Israel, but we are still praying for the return of Ron Arad and Gilad Shalit.

Copyright: Amili Gelbman 2008

Friday, July 18, 2008

Logo of the Year of Zionism

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs published on its website in 1998 the Logo of the Year of Zionism which

consists of six colored triangular sections composing the Star of David. Each triangle of the logo, which was selected by the Israeli public, symbolizes a different aspect of the Zionist experience:

* A blue and white triangle symbolizing the Israeli flag;

* A red arrow pointing to the East - the "mizrah" and referring to the future;

* An orange triangle representing the desert and efforts to make the desert bloom;

* A triangle with purple dots representing the grapes brought back by the spies who scouted the Land of Israel and found a "land of milk and honey";

* The Hebrew letter "aleph" representing the rebirth of the Hebrew language; and

* The green sabra plant which has come to symbolize the modern Israeli.

The Mess

Star of David Mess photo was taken by Hayim Shtayer at the exhibition of the graduate students of the department for graphic design in the Wizo Design Academy in Haifa where he lectures.

Designed this mess logo (expressing the messy situation in which the Israeli State finds itself on its 60th birthday) Maya Sarfati, one of these graduate students,

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Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Courtesy of: Maya Sarfati

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Torah Coat

Star of David appears on an old Torah Coat.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

13th Maccabiah Postage Stamp


The Maccabiah Postage Stamp designers demonstrated along the years their original talent to view the Star of David in a new light. Here we see the number 13 as a main element in the construction of our national emblem. Photo is courtesy of Gideon from the Israeli Stamp collector’s Forum “collect”.

Issued: 1989

Designers: Dan Reisinger, Rafi Dayagi, M. Gali

Antique Book About Herzl

Star of David appears on the cover of a 40 Page book titled Theodor Herzl written by Dr. Osias Thon, Issued in Berlin.

Jehoshua Osias Thon (1870-1936), was Lvov community’s Rabbi, a Zionist leader, and a member of the Polish Parliament.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sabbath Nachamu Hand Coloured Picture

I got this photo from Menachem, owner of an Israeli bookstore called Simple Books- Josef-inheritance.

Copyright: Simple Books 2008

David Wallersteiner, Menachem’s father grandfather, drew it in 1935 in Palestine for Sabbath Nachamu, which is the Sabbath after the 9th of Av.

Size:14cm X 18cm

The Star of David here looks more religious than national.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Antique Mold

Star of David appears on an antique (late 1940’s) mold manufactured by Josef Wallersteiner for Hakishut (the decoration) company, metalwork, Bezalel style, 1936-66.

Copyright: Simple Books - Josef-inheritance 2008,

Contact: shaham_e@zahav.net.il

Monday, July 14, 2008

Protocols of the Elders of Zion , German Edition

Star of David appears on the cover of the German Edition of the most notorious anti-Semite book, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Munchen 1933 (The first year of the Third Reich). The book is offered for sell at an Israeli bookstore called Simple Books/josef-inheritance, and the caption on their website reads:
Die geheimnisse der weisen von zion weisen in deutscher sprache herausgegeben von gottfried zur beek verlag frz. eher nachf, Munchen 1933, soft cover 72 page Copyright: Simple Books 2008


Protocols UK edition 1970

Reubeni Prince of the Jews

Dobush from Kar Aza, Israel referred me to this photo of a Star of David on the cover of Max Brod’s book, Reubeni Furst Der Juden (Prince of the Jews), Munchen, 1925. The book is offered for sell at an Israeli bookstore called Simple Books/josef-inheritance. (Copyright: Simple Books 2008).

The reason the Star of David appears on this book cover is, most probably, that legends tell about David HaReubeni, 16th century Jewish leader who had a flag with the Star of David on it. Some say that the Magen David’s name came from David HaReubeni and not from Biblical King David.

From Wikipedia entry Max Brod

Max Brod (May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968) was an Austrian (later Czech) author, composer, and journalist of Jewish origin, later settled in Israel.

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From: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6541458.html

Halter, Marek. The Messiah. Toby. Apr. 2008. c.485p. tr. from French by Lauren Yoder. ISBN 978-1-59264-216-8. $24.95. F

The author of both historical fiction (e.g., The Wind of the Khazars) and religious fiction (see the following review) turns to the 16th century and a little-known crusade by a Jewish prince who went to Italy to marshal support for a Jewish state in what is now modern-day Israel. David Reubeni, the prince of Chabor, claims that he is one of the descendants of the tribe of Reuben (one of the ten tribes out of 12 that disappeared from history). He is a prodigious scholar, a military genius, and an enigmatic figure in his white woolen tunic with the Star of David emblazoned on the front. After passing through deserts and traveling by ship from Arabia, he arrives in Venice and finds the Jews there and in other cities living in ghettos, impoverished and longing for the messiah to relieve their misery. Reubeni refuses their adoration and the appellation of messiah. He wants to establish a land where Jews can live in peace and to convince Pope Clement II of his mission; the key to his strategy is a Judeo-Christian alliance that could counter the growing influence of Islam across the Mediterranean. This exciting and well-researched book is highly recommended.Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, MD

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Italian Holy Ark Curtain

Star of David on a Holy Ark Curtain (Parochet) from Italian Conegliano Veneto Synagogue, which had been erected in 1701. The whole Synagogue was transferred to Israel in 1952, and is exhibited at the Italian Jews Museum on 27 Hillel St. Jerusalem Israel 97226241610

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Copyright: U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art 2008

Italian Hanukkah Candlestick

Star of David on a splendid silver Italian Hanukkah candlestick from the Italian Jews Museum on 27 Hillel St., Jerusalem, Israel.

Contact: jija@netvision.net.il 97226241610

Copyright: U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art 2008

Saturday, July 12, 2008

14th Maccabiah Postage Stamp

Star of David with the number 14 that marks the 14th Maccabiah

Issued on 29/06/1993

Designer: Danny Zilberman

Emanuel

Photo of a Star of David on the flag of the first pre-Israeli merchant navy, Emanuel, was sent to me by Dobush from Kar Aza, Israel, who found it on Hebrew Wikipedia entry: Emanuel (ship)

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Selim II, Ottoman Coin


Photo of Solomon’s Seal on an Ottoman (1566 – 1574) silver coin is courtesy of Yehoshua Zlotnik.
Copyright: Yehoshua Zlotnik 2008
The Selim II coin was minted in Haleb (Syria).
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Friday, July 11, 2008

11th Maccabiah Postage Stamp


Star of David made from diagonal lines.

Issued on 5/5/81

Designer: Moshe Pereg

9th Maccabiah Postage Stamp


Star of David made from very colorful lines that compose the Hebrew letter Mem which is the initial of Maccabiah

Issued on 03/05/1973

Designer: Dan Reisinger

8th Maccabiah Postage Stamp

Star of David painted on a torch that reminds the Olympic Torch (since the Maccabiah is the Jewish Olympiad).

Issued on 9.7.69

Designer: Eliezer Weishoff

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Ness Ziona Synagogue Back View

Photo of a Star of David on the back wall of Ness Ziona Synagogue is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The Synagogue was built in the 1920’s.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008

See more Star of David photos by Amit Mendelson

Ness Ziona Synagogue Front View


Photo of a Star of David on the front wall of Ness Ziona Synagogue is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The Synagogue was built in the 1920’s.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008

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Twelve Rhombs

Photo of a pattern of Star of David Shapes each made from twelve rhombs on an Israeli postal stamp that had been issued in 26.2.1953 is courtesy of stamp collector Dobush from Kfar Aza. Designer: Otte Wallish

From Wikipedia entry - Otte Wallish:

Otte Wallish

1903-1977

- was an émigré to Israel who established himself as a graphic designer and contributed to the symbolic self-representation of the Jewish state. Wallish was born in Vienna and emigrated to Palestine in 1934, a time of increasing peril for the Jews of Austria... During the 1930's and 1940's, Wallish worked on artistic arrangement, statistical graphs and other design aspects for books. In 1929, his own book was published, ABC: Ein Bilderbuch.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Armband

Blue Star of David on a white armband as part of a work created by Akiva Kenet Segan

Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008

From:

http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/Gallery%20Page%203.htm

Photo plates from the "Wooden Synagogues" book, portions of which were used to draw images depicted in the young man's torso between his shirt collar and arms folded across his chest. In the Wooden Synagogue book photo above, there are five flying birds in the synagogue wall-painting towards the upper left of the photo. In the artwork, the birds were painted above the violin - seen directly below the man's left arm - seen on viewer's right. Photo (below at left) of the Torah parchment from the book 'The Last Jews of Eastern Europe.' Photo at lower right of detail of a wooden synagogue wall, some of which was drawn in the torso area of Young Man with Star....

The yellow patch was not uniform in all the places under the Third Reich regime and at least at the start there were a few blue Stars of David on a white arm band. It was somewhat like precursor of the Israeli flag.

Lody Means Ice Cream In Polish


Star of David as part of a work created by Akiva Kenet Segan

Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008

From:

http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/images/4lody.jpg

UWG Art No. 21

The child victims portrayed in this mixed media piece were drawn from Warsaw Ghetto photos - the child at viewers left from a photo by Nazi soldier Heinz Jost [see also UWG Drawings No. 7, 9, and 33]. Josts caption for the photo stated:
On the sidewalk in a side street I saw this tiny child who could no longer pull himself upright. The passers-by didn't stop. There were too many children like this one. Lody means ice cream in Polish. Store signs seen in Warsaw Ghetto photos pre-date the Nazi occupation and the sealing in of the ghetto. I was struck, living in Seattle ~ with my home city's close proximity to Alaska and Native American culture, by the incongruity of a store sign in the Warsaw Ghetto for Eskimo brand ice-cream.

Warsaw Ghetto Trolley

Akiva Kenet Segan drew this Star of David on the Muranow Street Trolley Car in the Warsaw Ghetto

Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008

From:

http://lakewood.connectexpress.com/~holocaustart/UWings%20Art%20Gallery.htm

Drawn from a photo in the book The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 45th Anniversary (Interpress, Warsaw, 1988) this drawing became the first drawing of the Under the Wings of G-D series. The photo is in the chapter Life in the Ghetto.

I was struck by the three figures: the conductor and two men on either side of the of the front of the trolley, all of whom, I contemplated, probably went up in smoke in the gas chambers or died in the ghetto, itself a concentration camp where over one-hundred thousand people died in 1941. The trolley itself would have been removed by the Nazi's for its valuable metal.

The two wings were drawn on subsequent visits to the Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Tomarkin Monument Detail: Remember

Yigal Tomarkin statue at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv with the Hebrew word for Remember under a Star of David.

See a series of photos I took there

Tomarkin Statue Detail: Jude Yellow Star

Yigal Tomarkin statue at Rabin Square, Tel Aviv with the first letter of the word "Jude", which was written on the Yellow Badge.

See a series of photos I took there

Monday, July 07, 2008

Ezer Mizion Logo

The logo of Ezer Mizion organization contains the the Hebrew letters Ayin (Ezer) and Mem (Mizion) on the shape of the Star of David.

From: http://www.ezermizion.com/About_Ezer_Mizion/

Ezer Mizion, the Israel Health Support Organization, offers an extensive range of medical and social support services to help Israel's sick, disabled, elderly and underprivileged populations. Since its founding in 1979, Ezer Mizion has grown to become one of the largest non-profit organizations in Israel, benefiting over 650,000 people every year.

Private Relationship

I have no idea what are these Stars of David for, but they convey the meaning of private (not commercial or institutional) relationship to our national emblem.

Synagogue Mosaic Detail


Detail from a decorated wall of the Synagogue at Givat Mordechai, Jerusalem, Israel

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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Yellow Shield of David

Photo of a yellow Shield of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is at Shukri 11 in Haifa.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.

Decorated Gate


Photo of a decorated Gate with a Star of David is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. The gate is in front of the building in Zebulon 11 in Haifa.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

1926


Photo of the date the building next to Shukri 11, Haifa, ended above a Star of David engraved in stone is courtesy of Amit Mendelson. Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.

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1925

Photo of Star of David engraved in stone - surrounding the date the building on Shukri 11, Haifa, ended - is courtesy of Amit Mendelson.

Copyright: Amit Mendelson 2008.

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Safed Postage Stamp

Safed Postage Stamp from 1948 decorated with Stars of David is published here courtesy of Itamar Karpovski. Designed by the legendary illustrator Aryeh Moskovich.

From Wikipedia / Postal history of Palestine:


In the town of Safed, the departure in April of the British left the Haganah trying to establish control. The Haganah enlisted a postal clerk to print up postal envelopes, which were never used, as well as 2,200 stamps (10 mils each). On the stamps was written, in Hebrew: Safed mail Eretz Israel. Once stamped, mail was routed by the Haganah through Rosh Pina. These Safed emergency stamps were the only ones issued by the Haganah.

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Friday, July 04, 2008

Breslau Car

Breslau Dancers car decorated with Stars of David in Jerusalem near the Municipality Building at Safra Square on June 3rd 2008.

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Breslau Dancer Pendant

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...

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Fire Banners

Copyright: Anat Massad 2008

From: 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.