The Jewish World In Stamps

In hundreds of full-colour stamps from many lands, this book depicts a small people who continue to leave their imprint on every area of human activity, from faith and morality to sports and motion pictures. Areas covered include Jewish customs and traditions, major contributions in all areas of culture and science, sports, entertainment, and much more. The stamps are arranged artistically and are catalogued, making the book a visual joy for all readers and a sourcebook for collectors.

This book includes Marvin Beleck's stamp collection with actual photo inserts of the actual worldwide postal stamps. It features noted Jewish people throughout history who are on postage stamps issued by over 95 countries in the world. They are classified in 37 fields of notoriety of the person, their specialty classification, dates lived, and issuing country and the SCOTT or MICHEL identification number of each stamp, with special sections related to KKL/JNF stamps & Jewish history. These beautiful stamps were collected over a period of 50 years and placed in this book which was 6 years in the making. Many hours of devotion were involved in production of this undertaking. You will be amazed by the actors, artists, rabbis, holocaust surviviors, national government leaders, writers, etc., all Jewish, who were honored in countries of the world on a postage stamp. You will want this 1st edition book if you love history, beauty, famous Jewish relics of the world, and the heritage of noted Jewish people in countries all over the world, whether it be for their inventions, or lifetime of dedication and achievements.

With chess game annotations by Nathan Divinsky.

Drawing on many rabbinic and post-rabbinic sources, the commandments, by tradition 613 in number, are explained in light of traditional sources in a clear and direct way for today's reader.

A history of the Jewish National Fund and the ways it encouraged Jews around the world to buy land in Palestine in the years 1924-1947. The Jewish National Fund [JNF] is the executive body established by the Zionist movement in 1902 to buy land in Palestine for the Jewish people. Very quickly, however, it became an international organization and soon had branchesin many countries throughout the world. One of the tasks of these branches was to mediate between the central office in Jerusalem and the millions of Jews who donated money to buy land. The organization, which is still active throughout the Jewish world, concerned itself with "the marketing of ideology" the dissemination of symbols, knowledge and ideas to the masses of the Jewish people, and converted them into money and real estate property. In thememories of much of World Jewry the JNF is linked with memories of their childhoods and the forming of their identities. The memory was, in fact, fashioned by the Propaganda Department of the JNF which worked through the mass communications media in the Jewish world and made its presence massively felt in the Jewish education networks in many countries. Among the most remembered items are "the Blue Box", the flagship of the organization, and the stamps distributed to schools, which were miniature posters making political declarations. Up until today there has been virtually no research carried out on these aspects of Zionist propaganda which helped to fashion this collective memoryand left its mark upon Jewish culture in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Yoram Bar-Gal is Professor of Geography at Haifa University in Israel.