Box 56

Scope and Contents

Album with stamps on the following topics: Jewish institutions (orphanages, schools, hospitals), Jewish groups and charities (Jewish National Fund, United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem, Jewish War Veterans of the United States), events (philatelic exhibitions, fairs, the Second Maccabiah), holidays, Israel anniversary commemorations, images from Palestine and Israel, tombs, and ships. Of note are a large number of stamps issued by the Jewish National Fund.

Scope and Contents The majority of items in this album are memorial stamps from countries including Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Of note are stamps from Poland featuring memorials of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A number of stamps refer to specific concentration camps. There are also several envelopes with stamps postmarked from Germany in early 1930s. The stamps are marked with the words "Deutsches Reich" and posted on envelopes bearing images of swastikas on...

Scope and Contents Stamps labeled as "Judaica philatelica" by Rosenthall, include artwork reproductions, ceremonial objects, holiday stamps, synagogues, images of traditional costumes, stamps issued by the Dominican Republic commemorating refugees, Holocaust memorial stamps, prominent Jewish figures, biblical images, and a small number of stamps issued by Syria throughout the 1960s commemorating Palestine Day, Palestine Week, the Deir Yassin Massacre, and the Nakba. Of note are a small number of stamps from...

Scope and Contents

This album contains Judaica postage stamps affixed to postcards of the same subject matter, many with matching images. Topics include synagogues, Judaica museum holdings, gravestones, ceremonial objects (such as ketubot and menorot), Holocaust memorial sculptures and images, and a small number featuring prominent Jewish figures and artwork reproductions.