Nobel SIP Haifa cover2_Layout 1 12-08-02 7:37 PM Page 1 THE ISRAELPHILATELIST JOURNAL OF ISRAEL PHILATELISTS INC. JUNE 2012 DEVOTED TO THE PHILATELY OF THE HOLY LAND VOL LXIII NO 3 Rare Forerunner BY ROBERT B. PILDES, MD. PAGES 100-101 q IN THIS ISSUE Franz Kafka Jewish Novelist 86 Labor Camp in Slovakia 89 China-Germany Connection 102 International Mail to Palestine/Israel 114 California, Here We Come! SIP Convention 2012 August 17-19 Sacramento Convention Center Sacramento, California Schedule of Events Friday, August 16th 2–3 p.m. – Ed Kroft Friday, August 16th 4–6 p.m. – Executive Committee Meeting Friday, August 16th 6:30 p.m. – Shabbos service 7:30 p.m. – Society Banquet Saturday, August 17th 8-11 a.m. – Annual Society General Membership meeting Includes Continental-style breakfast service Sunday, August 18th 10–11 a.m. – Ed Rosen – “Mail of the Shanghai Ghetto” 2 www.israelstamps.com The Israel Philatelist-June 2012 Jumn * Volume 63 * Number 3 www.israelstamps.com in this issue SOCIETY Inside front cover – SIP Convention 82 Membership Application 114 82 SIP Leadership 83 Editor’s Notes Interim Period 84 Letters to the Editor 114 Palestine/Israel 118 President’s Column Yechiel M. 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Chafetz counterpart, Glassman said, fears were stripped away. “When we met on a personal level, and the interaction Th e following article appeared in was wonderful,” said Glassman, noting the Iranian the August 7, 2012 Israeli newspaper commissioner’s daughter, a vegetarian, asked him what Haaretz; written by Mordechai I. it was like to keep kosher. “We spoke openly sometimes Twersky. it was political, but in a very nice way. Th ere were no barriers. No one was afraid to ask each other any In Muslim Indonesia, Les questions.” Glassman found that stamp collectors, like the postage To emphasize his point, Glassman shared several they covet, can cross informal photos of him and the Iranian commissioner boundaries. “It was like a family of nations, But when Haaretz requested permission to publish the for the love of stamps,” said Glassman. "Photo by Emil photographs, the soft -spoken Glassman respectfully Les Glassman could easily Salman demurred, preferring not to ruffl e any diplomatic have headed into a diplomatic feathers. buzz saw last month (June) when he touched down in Jakarta, Indonesia, for an international stamp exhibition. Glassman did provide Haaretz with a copy of the exhibition’s offi cial catalog and his identifi cation badge Here was Israel’s offi cial representative, a kippa-wearing —identifying him as a representative of Israel, alongside dentist from Jerusalem, in the jowls of the world’s most an Israeli fl ag. In the catalog, his stamp display panel is populous Muslim nation. Indonesia has no formal clearly marked “Israel.” diplomatic relations with Israel, so despite having been invited as Israel’s offi cial representative to the conference, And at the awards-granting ceremony, when Glassman Glassman had to enter the country on his South African rose from his chair, he was greeted warmly. “Everyone passport. applauded,” said Glassman, who also met Jewish stamp collectors from South America and Australia. A number He would soon come face-to-face with his Egyptian and of participants had attended a similar international Turkish counterparts, and in a plot twist so absurd it exhibition in Israel in 2008 sponsored by the Federation could have been scripted, he would then fi nd himself Glassman said he also “got along very well” with the seated not just at the same table as, but smack next to, Egyptian Commissioner; with a Turkish delegate, his counterpart from Iran. whom he discovered was also a dentist; and with the Commissioner from Bahrain. "I didn't know how we would interact," the 52-year- old Glassman told Haaretz aft er returning from the “It was like a family of nations, for the love of stamps,” Fédération Internationale de Philatélie-sponsored said Glassman. “Our interests were very similar, and World Stamp Championship and Exhibition, Bridging once we saw behind what the head covering was, we the World Th rough Stamps. “Most Indonesians never just saw each other as acquaintances and new friends.” met an Israeli before, or anyone wearing a yarmulke.” Glassman distributed stamps given to him by the Israel Philatelic Federation, which regularly holds both To listen to Glassman’s surreal account – he and his wife national and international exhibitions in Israel. He was ended up throwing diplomatic cares to the wind and particularly struck by the reaction of the many school cavorting with their Arab and Persian counterparts for children in attendance. “Th e joy on their face when the duration of the eight-day conference – is to conjure they received an envelope with a stamp from Israel is up images from the prophecy of Isaiah. As the real something I will never forget,” he said. world’s diplomatic brushfi res raged on, the philatelists bonded, like wolves dwelling with lambs, in the confi nes Perhaps, a reporter suggested to Glassman, stamp of Jakarta’s cavernous International Convention Center.