Star of David

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.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Mizrach decoration

Star of David on a Mizrach decoration Image is copied from Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906) The Mizrach (Hebrew for east) is a deco...

Yellow Badge

Photo courtesy of Daniel Ullrich, Threedots, who took it at the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Westphalia, Dorsten, Germany and put it on t...

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Daughter of Zion

One of the terms that demonstrate that there's an identity between the Star of David and Zion is the "Daughter of Zion". Ori...

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Zion Mule Corps

W hen World War I broke out Jewish leaders Joseph Trumpeldor and Ze’ev Jabotinsky met in Egypt and developed the idea of a Jewish legion t...

Jewish Wedding Contracts

R ecently I wrote about the wedding stones and estimated that the Star of David which appears on some of them Symbolizes Jerusalem (Zion)...

Points of View

R ecently I started thinking seriously about publishing the contents of this blog as a blook. Well, if it's a book which is based on ...

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Jewish Origin of the Star of David

Extract of a research by Uri Ofir, who let me translate it from Hebrew To communicate please call 972-3- 6774757 Excerpts from t...

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