Do You Collect Hungarian Philately With A Judaic Focus?

Szía and hello!

I'm a volunteer writer (and future grad student) for the Hungarian Philately Society; I'm looking for people to interview about their knowledge and share images of their collections. Share your passion with our membership. Pre philately, early franking techniques and the alternative Jewish Postal system are also of interest. Pass this on to someone you know. Thank you!

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Hello,

What do you mean "Jewish Postal System"? Do you mean the system during the Holocaust?

About Hungarian philately and Judaic focus: I have a collection of items from Hungary about Esperanto. It has about 20 items, mainly commemorative postmarks and PC's. I can send scans of them.

Welcome ---VanBlueMore , I am puzzled by what you want and trying to tie what your asking for and what I know about some of the subjects your asking about .
We have people here who collect and can show Hungary postal material . Then are you asking about Jewish postal material in Europe ? Or are you asking about Jewish material in the Holyland pre-independance .

Thank you both for answering. I did a bit of research and I think the AI led me astray a bit. Im not sure if this is truly "philately" Have you heard of this?

Kashariyot (#1511;#1513;#1512;#1497;#1493;#1514;): This is the official Hebrew term for the underground Zionist couriers. It translates directly to "links" or "connectors". Philatelists and historians use this specific term to describe the young women and men who hand-carried messages between the isolated ghettos.

Im a new member so I am not able to access your contact information and the moderators have taken my information off the post. If there is a way to learn more about this type of collecting, I would be quite interested, LaoPhil.

Since you cannot email members directly (until you have 50 quality posts), the only way I could recommend is that you just continue posting questions and getting answers on your thread. Perhaps start another thread with something else that is slightly unrelated to the first.

So, keep on posting and you'll get to 50 posts before you know it.

vanBlueMore:

While you are working on getting your 50 posts here, you might want to review the website for the Society of Israel Philatelists. This group is based in the US but has members from around the world, and is one of the more active of the Israel/Judiaca societies.

They are here... https://israelstamps.com/

Go to their contact page and describe your interest. It make take a while for them to route your request to the right individual, so be very clear when describing the specific types of information you are seeking.

There used to be a Israel/Holyland philatelic organization based in Israel (I was a member for many years) but I believe it eventually disbanded - I know they discontinued their publication. Perhaps LaoPhil can provide details since I believe he is based there.

You are into an area that was never part of my philatelic interests with Israel so I am sorry I can be of no direct assistance.

MikeL
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I think you'd characterise your interest as "postal history", but genuine postal history which, in the main, has nothing to do with postage stamps and goes back into the distant past.

Let me step back into this , it sounds like your looking for a LOCAL POST in Hungary that served the Jewish community . The question is did they have a stamp or a marking on the envelope to be included as something collectible or as GeoffHa asked , was this before 1840 . If this postal system existed it would extend outward to Germany and Poland to Jewish communities

Back to my question was there something that today is collectible .

This sounds less like a "postal system" as we know it, and more like an underground message system, written, oral or transmitted eg by radio - as such, it would be surprising if many artefacts survived.