Saturday, April 12, 2008

Bernard Revel Postage Stamp

American Postage Stamp jewish star

Dobush from Kfar Aza sent me this 1986 American Postage Stamp issued to mark the 100th anniversary of Yeshiva University. It has a tiny star of David hidden in the beard of Rabbi Bernard Revel.

Holocaust Memorial, Rhodes

Black coffin on a Jewish star
Photo of Star of David on the holocaust memorial at the Square of the Martyred Jews in the Old City of Rhodes is courtesy of "templar1307" from Flickr. The design (Black coffin on a Jewish star) seems unique.

The Cat With The Yellow Star

We see a girl with a yellow badge on the book cover of The Cat With The Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Weissberger


Yellow Badge Bibliography

1. Merback, Mitchell B.

Beyond the yellow badge :anti-Judaism and antisemitism in medieval and early modern visual cultur, 2008

2. Poliakov, Leon,

1910- L’etoile jaune, 1949

3. Cerf, Paul

L’etoile juive au Luxembourg, 1986

4. Friedman, Philip

1901-1960 The Jewish badge and the yellow star in the Nazi era, 1955

5. Lund, Jens

The legend of the king and the star, 1975

6. Brasz, Chaya

Removing the yellow badge :the struggle for a Jewish community in the post war Netherlands

7. Stern, Frank

1944- The whitewashing of the yellow badge :antisemitism and philosemitism in postwar Germany

8. Kisch, Guido

1889- The yellow badge in history, 1942

9. Dwork, Deborah

Children with a star :Jewish youth in Nazi Europe, 1991

10. Rubin, Susan Goldman

The cat with the yellow star :coming of age in Terezin, 2006

11. producerLindwer, Willy

Married with a star : a Jewish wedding in occupied Amsterdam, 1942 [motion picture] 1991

12. Wiseman, Eva

1947- My canary yellow star, 2002

13. Ross, Stewart

The star houses :a story from the Holocaust, 2002

14. Mostowicz, Arnold

With a yellow star and a red cross :a doctor in the Lodz ghetto, 2005

15. Schoenberner, Gerhard

The yellow star :the persecution of the Jews in Europe, 1933-1945

16. Unsdorfer, S. B.

The yellow star, 1961

17. Eva Wiseman, My Canary Yellow Star

18. Jennifer Roy, Yellow Star