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.
Photo of Star of David on a Hanukkah Candlestick behind a portrait of an old man is courtesy of Israeli painter Meir Salomon, who spent 35 years in Holland. Salomon includes often Judaica in his paintings, and I already published a few of his Stars of David, which always appear in a surprising context.
Copyright: Meir Salomon 2008
On the left we see a Star of David made from curved carving-like lines.
The Hebrew words are from the Priestly Blessing, a Jewish prayer based on the verse from Numbers 6:23-27: "They shall place My name upon the children of Israel, and I Myself shall bless them."
Photo is courtesy of Israeli painter Meir Salomon, who frequently introduces six-pointed Jewish emblems into his works of art.
Copyright: Meir Salomon 2008
Star of David on the monument for the 100,000 Ponary massacre victims executed between July 1941 and August 1944.
Dobush from Kfar Aza sent me this drawing of a Yellow Badge with flames of the Kristallnacht, which appear on a November 9, 1963 stamp from East Germany.
From: http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/art/
See the yellow star on the cloths of the blind on the Watercolor by Leo Haas entitled, "The Blind of Theresienstadt."
Leo Haas (1901-1983), Czech Jewish artist who, while imprisoned in the concentration camps of Nisko and Theresienstadt during World War II, painted portraits and produced a large volume of drawings documenting the daily life of the prisoners.
See on the same page:
Star of David beaded necklace made by a female Jewish prisoner at a munitions factory camp in Germany.
Photo of a painting depicting a yellow badge replacing the Star of David on the Israeli flag is courtesy of Hayim Maor.
