Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture

Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more

Charity Box for the Keren HaTorah Organization – Hungary, 1920s-1930s

Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Cardboard charity box for Agudath Israel's Keren HaTorah organization. [Hungary, 1920s to late 1930s].
Blue cardboard charity box for hanging on the wall. The box is inscribed "Keren HaTorah", "TORA ALAP", and "If not for Torah, Heaven and Earth would not have been established" (Hebrew). The inscriptions surround the organization's emblem – the globe set in the Tablets of the Law, surrounded by other celestial bodies.
The Keren HaTorah organization was founded by Agudath Israel in 1923 to support the yeshivot and Torah institutions in Europe and Palestine. It was active until the outbreak of WWII.
Maximum height: 15.5 cm. Width: 8.5 cm. Depth: 5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor abrasions and defects. Pieces of paper pasted on the box.
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