Yellow Star

Yellow star is a term that could refer to:

  • A yellow star in Stellar classification
  • A yellow badge, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to wear on their clothes
  • Any plant of Hypoxis genus in the Hypoxidaceae family
  • A song by Donovan from his album Essence to Essence
  • The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45, a 1980 documentary film
  • Yellow Star (book), a 2006 children's novel describing life in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II.

Famous quotes containing the words yellow star, yellow and/or star:

    “Tell me how many beads there are
    In a silver chain
    Of evening rain,
    Unravelled from the tumbling main,
    And threading the eye of a yellow star:—
    So many times do I love again.”
    —Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

    “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
    And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)