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Tzedakah (charity box)

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Tzedakah (charity) box, Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish History
Tzedakah (charity) box, Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish HistoryCC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Tzedakah (charity) box, Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish History
Tzedakah (charity) box, Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish HistoryCC0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Temple Sinai (New Orleans) tzedakah box, or pushke (charity box)
Temple Sinai (New Orleans) tzedakah box, or pushke (charity box)CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Description

Domestic or synagogal collection box gathering donations, often dedicated to a specific cause (the town's poor, the Holy Land).

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