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.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Iranian Banknote

In a Reform Judaism magazine interview, Dr. Houman Sarshar, the director of publications at the Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, sai...

Betty And Henri 1942

Photo is courtesy of artist Tsvi Nadav Rosler and it shows the yellow badge on the blouse of Betty. The painting is part of a series about...

The Mousetrap

Photo is courtesy of artist Tsvi Nadav Rosler and it shows the yellow badge as a mousetrap. Size of painting: 40x40 cm. Tsvi Nadav Rosler ...

Friday, June 01, 2007

Yuval Caspi, an Arab with a Purple Mustache

Yuval Caspi showed this impressive work, titled an Arab with a Purple Mustache, on the Yavne exhibition of Israeli artists painting Magen ...

Dome of the Chain, Old Jerusalem

I heard about this Muslim hexagram from the 7th century C.E. about a year ago but couldn’t get hold of its photo, and now here it is, courte...

Paul Kor

Artist Paul Kor(1926- 2001) made a series of six paintings dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. The ...

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Saddest Day

Photo of black Star of David on a gray background (with a sad Jew inside it) is courtesy of my favorite graphic designer, Jenni Gottschalk. ...

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