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, January 11, 2008

Om Star

Photo of Indian Om symbol inside a six-pointed star is courtesy of Ben Piven who shot it a few days ago in Kerala, India Copyrigts: Ben Pi...

Stamp With Hebrew Poetry

JNF issued in 1987 a holocaust stamp with a yellow badge on concentration camp prisoner uniform, and with two Hebrew poems: one by Chayim G...

Herzl’s emblem for the Zionist Congress

Photo is courtesy of Dr. Haim Grossman. Since I helped organize the Magen David Festival in Yavne I was very pleased to read what Dov Gutt...

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Dome of the Rock-3

Here the Solomon Seals appear above the arch of the Dome of the Rock. Actually there are more six-pointed stars on the Temple Mount, in Je...

Dome of the Rock-2

The Dome of the Rock is the first Muslim monument. It was built by Abd al-Malik in the 7 th century. The six-pointed stars appear on the ex...

Dome of the Rock-1

The six-pointed stars appear in the most important sites of the monotheistic religions, like the Holy Arks in Jewish Synagogues, facades an...

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Star of Canada

Photo of Star of David made to look like a maple leaf is courtesy of jcjface from Flickr who wrote to me that The star is from the front of ...

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