Thursday, December 20, 2007

Table in Moshav Manot, Israel

table jewish star
Painter Dick Ben Dor shot and sent me this Star of David pattern on a table at Moshav Manot, Israel. The table was ordered especially from Marrakech, Morocco.
Copyright: Dick Ben Dor

Christmass Decoration

Christmass Decoration Hexagram
Non Jewish hexagram shot two weeks ago at a shop window in Hardewijk , Holland, by Dick Ben Dor. It seems like a Christmass decoration
Copyright: Dick Ben Dor

Window in Ijmuden, Holland

Holland Hexagram
Non-Jewish hexagram in a window in Ijmuden, Holland 

Shot two weeks ago by Dick Ben Dor
Copyright: Dick Ben Dor

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

World Convention of Jewish Youth

Star of David globe
Star of David and globe on an event cancel from 28/07/1958 made for World Convention of Jewish Youth in Jerusalem.
From Isareli Philatelic Federaton cancels catalog

The Eternal Jew

Anti-semitism jewish star
Red Jewish star on a Poster of Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") the most famous Nazi propaganda film 

Herzl’s Flag

7 stars of David Herzl
1896  Herzl's flag with the 7 stars aranged as a Star of Davi

It was proposed only on Herzl's diary and was never materialized.


Tuesday, December 18, 2007

German Six Pointed Stars

Common knowledge is that Germans forced Jews during Third Reich period to wear the six- pointed stars. It seems hard to believe that Germans used this symbol for themselves – it may even seem a scoop, but Terry G. Jordan found out series of six-pointed stars in Texas German graveyards (and wrote about them in his book: Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy, University of Texas Press, 1984 ISBN 0292780702 p. 111):
selected six pointed hex signs derived from rubbings of Texas German
gravestones… double sechsstern Drudenfuss, New Braunfels old town cemetery,
Comal county, 1874.

(see the photo on p. 90 – it looks exactly like the Jewish Star of David)
In p. 112 he wrote:
Among the Pennsylvania Germans the term Hexefiess also meaning “witch’s foot” is
preferred the six-pointed variety, or hexagram. Is also. Along with the compass
star, called a sechsstern