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.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem, and look what I found: Magen David designed only from horizontal lines on a collection of articles published in the memory of the late Israeli Minister of Education, Zebulon Hammer.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem. On the both of Yad Ben Zvi I found these two books that carry a Magen David on a Synagogue. Inside the white book, which is about Tunisian Jewry, there was an article about the yellow badge in Tunisia with a photo of a five-pointed star.
A few days ago I went to photograph books that carry a Magen David on their front cover in the annual event called Hebrew Book Week, which started on May 28th at the Old Railway Station in Jerusalem. On the booth of Zalman Shazar Center publishing house, I found this rare image of A Bird Surrounded By a Magen David, along with an old clip from a Zionist Congress, and a nice design of a Magen David near the American Flag.
