(mano de Miriam)
Amuleto en forma de mano con un ojo en el centro al que se suelen atribuir poderes protectores contra el mal.
El jamsa es típico de las comunidades de Oriente Medio y del Mediterráneo.
The origins and meaning of Hamsa.
Bahrouzi Nitza, editor. The Hand of Fortune: Khamsas from the Gross Family Collection and the Eretz Israel Museum Collection. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2002.
Gonen, Rivka. “The Open Hand: On the North African ‘Hamsa’ and its Sources”. Israel Museum Journal XII, 1994, pp. 47–56.
Holthuis, Gabriele, ed. Living Khamsa: Die Hand zum Glück – The Hand of Fortune, Schwäbisch Gmünd: Museum und Galerie im Prediger, 2004.
Sabar, Shalom. “From Sacred Symbol to Key Ring: The Hamsa in Jewish and Israeli Societies.” Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, edited by Simon J. Bronner, vol. 2, Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization and Liverpool University Pres, 2010, pp. 140-162.
Shamir, Shirat-Miriam and Ido Noy, editors. Khamsa Khamsa Khamsa: The Evolution of a Motif in Contemporary Israeli Art, Jerusalem: L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art, 2018.
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