Israel 1958 Postcard
Magen David as part of the IDF aircraft emblem appears on an 1958 nostalgic postcard issued to mark Ten years of Israeli Independence. A plane that arrives from the sea allows us to see Israel from above: a green small (before the settlements) and clean country.
Copyright: Uri Mayrav and Hadi Or 2008
Thanks to Dobush who referred me to this image
Thirty-fifth Independence Day Israeli stamp carries not only a kinetic art Magen David but also this Magen David Signature in which the Jewish star replaces both the Hebrew Aleph letter and the Latin A letter. It is, in my view, a separate stand alone work of art!
Bulgarian star of David made from six stamps
Commemorating 100 Years to Sofia Synagogue
Issued on 09.09.2009
Designer:Radoslav Iliev
Since I consider myself the inventor of the six-pointed-star-shaped postage stamps I felt intimidated by this rivalry, but:
This set of 2 stamps, which shows Aldabra giant Tortoise, was released on 2 August 2008 by the Indian postage Service. The stamp in picture is courtesy of Mansoor Hussain who wrote to me:
It is not star shaped (originally it is in hexagonal shape) it has been cut from the sheet in star shape.
Copyright: Mansoor Hussain 2008
White on Blue (instead of the blue and white national Israeli colors) Magen David on the coats of the Makoya members who arrive to Israel.
Photographed by Zako and all rights are reserved to him.
Magen David, Menorah and the Ten Commandments appear above Herzl’s statue in the yard next to the Caesarea Ralli Museum, which was founded by Harry Recanati in 1993.
Picture by Hayim Shtayer
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
See more Herzl pictures by Hayim Shtayer
Italian candies manufactured by Golis (=Goliath) Company with the Star of David symbol decorating the wrapping. These two names are meeting again like in a second life (Karma).
All rights reserved to Sabina Saad 2008.
Jose Manuel Chamorro sent me pictures of these most interesting hexagram art works. He added in Spanish (but I translated with Google translator):
I am enclosing some pictures I have taken of a carved stone of the Shipibo. It belongs to a tribe of the upper Amazon in Peru. I still have not found the meaning of these six-pointed star images. Greetings
Copyright: Jose Manuel Chamorro 2008
Two small white Magen David emblems on blue background are carved in the Herzl Memorial sign at the house were he was born in Budapest in 1860.
Photography: Tamar Hayardeni
Copyright: Tamar Hayardeni 2008
Source: Hebrew Wikipedia
My thanks to Rossitza Ohridska-Olson who referred me to this impressive outstanding usage of the Christian hexagram in art works and who wrote to me:
These are 2 Christian icons from the Tryavna School of Icon painting authored by Joaniki papa Vitanov. They were painted in the beginning of his career (the historians put them around 1820). The artist was living and working in the Sliven region in Bulgaria. These photos are from the site of the Bulgarian Orthodox Christian Church.
A colorful hexagram appears in a 2-4th century C.E. mosaic floor excavated at a rich house in the Roman city Augusta Traiana in south Bulgaria. The city was built in 109 C.E. The mosaic is exhibited at the Regional Museum of History, Stara Zagora.
Copyright 2008 Rossitza Ohridska-Olson - photographer (culturalrealms.typepad.com)
Copyright 2008 Vizantia Enterprises Inc. (vizantia.com)
Recently, I got a few dozens well-selected images of Theodore Herzl from Graphic designer Hayim Shtayer who collects such images for many years, I thought it could be a magnetic center for many other Theodore Herzl enthusiasts, so I opened a group in Flickr dedicated to Theodore Herzl items - see:
http://flickr.com/groups/899548@N25/
The above photo is an invitation (from Hayim Shtayer’s collection) to an Independence Party on 2003. Caption under the blue (what else?) Magen David is: Even Herzl didn’t believe.
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
In Lesnovo Monastery (the Church of St. Archangel Gabriel), Macedonia, there are three circles. Rugs cover two of them, and in the picture we see the third, which is uncovered. The local monk told Rossitza Olson while she visited there that the Star of David is uncovered so that Christian visitors would have the opportunity to step on it and by that to reject Judaism.
This issue of stepping on the emblem of Judaism is quite popular and “jumps” each time one sees the six-pointed star on the floor, like in the Temple Mount at the 7th century C.E. Dome of the Chain, or in the case of Vans shoes. Anyhow Anti-Semitism is no news…
Copyright 2008 Rossitza Ohridska-Olson - photographer (culturalrealms.typepad.com)
Copyright 2008 Vizantia Enterprises Inc. (vizantia.com)
Magen David on 1938 Hagadah
Issued by General Foods Corporation to promote Maxwell Cofee sales
Copyright: Alfonzo 2008
Thanks to Dobush who referred me to this image
There are inter-religious expectations that Obama will save the world as the Messiah. Tradition has it that the Messiah would come on a white donkey.
In this Photoshop photomontage I added gold embroidery of a six-pointed star since this symbol is:
Picture of U.S. President Obama is courtesy of “craynol” from Flickr
Picture of a white donkey is courtesy of “hoyasmeg” from Flickr
This printer mark is copied from Project Gutenberg, Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography, by William Roberts, 1893. Printer William Faques designed this between 1499 and 1508. It has scriptural quotations on a white and black hexagram.
I thank Zeev Bonovitzky for referring me to this interesting appearance of the hexagram.
A unique design of the Magen David appears on the Hebrew Efrayim and (his son) Menachem Talmi Lexicon of Zionism, which was published in 1978 by Sifryat Ma'ariv, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Copyright: Zako 2008
The base of this monument to the 1604 martyrs of Rhodes and Cos who were murdered in Nazi death camps has the shape of a Magen David in addition to the frequently used white on black Magen David which is engraved on the column. Picture is Courtesy of “templar1307” from Flickr”
Painter Meir Salomon shot these four Magen Davids reflecting different stages of light at the area of Jaffa Flea Market, Israel
Copyright: Meir Salomon 2008
Hexagram framed by many Swastikas appears in a shop in Varanasi, India.
In India the meaning of these two symbols is quite different that their Western interpretation.
Copyright: Dr. Gilad Galili 2008 (I cropped the hexagram from a larger image he sent me)
Thanks to Dobush for referring me to this interesting image.
Hayim Shtayer went in November 1995 to Kikar Malchei Yisrael in Tel Aviv, the place where Yitzhak Rabin was murdered, and documented the spontaneous reactions of the Israeli public as they were written on the walls there. In the picture above we see a white Magen David below the caption: "you were born for peace".
Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008
See the whole collection on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeevveez/sets/72157608679326292/
I thank Dobush from Kfar Aza and Oded Israeli for referring me to this historical image.
Magen David logo made from the Hebrew Letters Lamed Vav Yod, which compose the name Levi of the owner of a private Ambulance in Jerusalem, Israel. Designing Magen David logos is prevalent, and you can see many such examples in different logos of the Maccabiah.
Size: 40X14X14 cm
Wood box, spring, wood Yellow Badge and acrylic paintings.
Anti-Semitism is hiding usually until it bursts unpredictably. Like demons that were hiding in a box. The Yellow Badge is bigger than the box so that once it’s out there’s no way to put it back. On the sides of the box are painted the flags of Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Holland. There wasn’t enough space for the flags of the other Anti-Semitic countries…
Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008
Picture of early 20th century Tau Crosses inside a hexagram at Sheffield Roman CatholicCathedral, England, is courtesy of “evissa” from Flickr who calls the hexagram by the name “double Trinity star”. Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, and it looks like the letter T.
