(tzedakah box)
Container used to collect funds for charity.
Charity boxes can be portable (such as alms bowls in Central Europe or moneybox) or built in a wall of the synagogue. In Germany, those built-in charity boxes can have the shape of an outstretched hand. In some synagogues (Italy, Comtat Venaissin in France) there can be trunks to collect for five or six different causes: the poor, the sick, dowry of poor girls, the Holy Land, etc.
Chesed, Tzedakah, Tzedek: What’s the difference?
“Charity (Tzedakah): Charity Throughout Jewish History,” Jewish Virtual Library
Heuberger, Georg, ed. Zedaka: Jüdische Sozialarbeit im Wandel der Zeit: 75 Jahre Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in Deutschland 1917-1992 [Zedaka: Jewish Social Work through the Ages: 75 Years of the Central Welfare Office for Jews in Germany 1917-1992]. Frankfurt am Main: Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, 1992, pp. 228-41.
Ladany, Shaul and Dotan Shulman, Ha-Kufsa ha-K’chula [The Blue Box]. Jerusalem: Jewish National Fund,2014.
The 2015 Dorothy Saxe Invitational: Tzedakah Box. San Francisco: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2015.
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