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.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Infinity

The following paragraph is taken from a new chapter, The Time Space Correlation, which doesn’t appear on Dr. Asher Eder’s book The Star of D...

Shuriken

The Magen David is defensive; it is supposed to protect its bearer. One can learn this from the original Hebrew name, Magen David, which me...

Atheism

On Nov. 30, 2006, in the Jerusalem Post, Samuel Freedman, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, and the author of six books, wro...

Friday, December 01, 2006

Pyramid and Hexagram

The following paragraph is from Dr. Asher Eder’s book The Star of David, which was published in 1987 in English in Jerusalem by Rubin Mass L...

Flower holder

Picture is courtesy of "alexisfisher" who published it on Flickr. He didn't explain what it is but I guess that it is a flower...

Smiling Star of David

On the bottom right Chanukah dice there's a cute Smiling Magen David - the first I've seen so far, although it looks so familiar tha...

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Former Jewish Synagogue in Nederland

Magen David appears in the stained-glass windows of the former synagogue of Deventer, Overijsse, Nederland. It was sold to a protestant con...

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