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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Few Jews Appear
on World Stamps

number of localities. But only
in the French Zone of Occupa-
tion was a truly "officical"
stamp issued showing a Jew-
Heinrich Heinb.
It took an occupying power to
force the depiction of a man,
recognized as one of Germany's
greatest poets.
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The only truly "Jewish" de-
sign on Palestinian stamp is the
Tomb of Rachel.

Palestine's Postage
Has Hebrew Letters

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MANY JEW HATERS

STRANGELY ENOUGH, al-
though one hears a great deal
about the contribution of Jews
to world civilization, this has not
become reflected on postage
stamps in any proportionate de-
gree. On the other hand, stamp
issues of many countries are
plentiful in their depiction of
bitter anti-Semites.

By RAYMOND DAVIES

TWO POSTAGE STAMP items

i • lead the subject of Jews on
1 the stamps of the world.

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characters are to be found on
stamps.

• fine of these is a single stamp;
other, seven issues. The first
. is the stamp issued in the Soviet
Union in 1933 depicting the na-
tionalities of the country. Of
• four kopek value in gray-black,
it is the only stamp in the world
that shows Jews as such, and
names them. The design shows
a Jewish workingman on the
background of construction ma-
chinery building Birobidjan.

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Germany and the axis and the
occupied countries had countless
stamps showing Hitler, Himler
and even Goebbels; Italy had
Hitler, Bohemia-Moravia had
Reinhard Heidrich; Slovakia had
Tiso; Romania had Antonescu,
etc.
Of all groups of countries,
those to depict Jews the least
are the Anglo-Saxon countries.
The United States' sole possi-
bilities for honor in this respect
are the depictions of Christopher
Columbus on a series of stamps
issued in 1893 and Joseph Pul-

The second item concerns the
Palestinian postage stamps
which bear the Hebrew lettering
for Palestine and "mills." Pal-
estinian postage due stamps also
bear the equivalent in Hebrew.
Thus only five words in Hebrew

Rosh Hashonah Greetings
CARLTON W. GAINES

POLISH SERIES

POLAND, UNTIL recently
paid no attention to Jews on
her stamps, although a fifth of
her population was Jewish, But
in 1946 the Polish government

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Rosh Hashonah Greetings

This young man is typical of
the hundred Palestinian teach-
ers sent to educate Jewish
children in DP camps of Ger-
many.

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In Poland too, another Jewish
series of stamps exists. It is
rare now and is said to have
been issued in Warsaw during
the rebellioh of the Ghetto
Jews. It is not an "official"
series of course, as also are not
certain Jewish "stamps" issued
in concentration camps in Ger-
many.

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THE DEPICTION of Jews and IMIL. 1 011 0MICWILIL1011.110110
of scenes pjrtaining to Jews on
stamps rightly begins with Ar-
menia which issued a series in
1922 showing the legendary
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Mount Ararat where, according
to tradition, the Ark was
grounded.
Then follows Austria which
has shown a number of Jews on
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her stamps before the Hitler
era. In 1934 the Austrian
Audits
Systems -- Tax Service
"Architects' Issue" showed the
Jewish Architect Jakob Prand-
tauer.
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RANDOLPH 5240
In 1936, in its "Inventors'
Series" the Austrians honored
Viktor Kaplan, inventor•of the
Kaplan turbine. In the next
year's "Physicians' Issue," doc-
tors Joseph Hyrtl, Theodor Bill-
roth and Theodor Meynert were
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
honored. All these were Jewish
or partly Jewish.
Brazil honored the L. M. Zem-
inhov, the inventor of Esperan-
to. The only other country to
do so was Russia, back in the
early 1920's."
Germany,• before the war,
showed no Jews on her stamps.
Following capitulation, stamps
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the horrible German death fac-
tory — Maidanek. The stamp
shows death spreading poison
gas over the Maidanek Camp,

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