VINTAGE Jewish JUDAICA Pushke KKL-JNF Tzedakah TIN BLUE BOX Zionist ISRAEL TREE

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VINTAGE Jewish JUDAICA Pushke KKL-JNF Tzedakah TIN BLUE BOX Zionist ISRAEL TREE:
$125.00

DESCRIPOTION : Here for sale is an EXCELLENT Jewish Zionist memmoraboilia collectible find.This is a made inUSA JNF - KKL Judaica charity - Donation- Tzedakah box ( Pushke ) for LAND redemption in Eretz Israel It\'s a COLLECTORS\' EDITION which was issued by the JNF - KKL in the USA in the 1980\'s , around 30 years ago. Inspite its young age , Being manufactured only around 30 years ago , Apparently one can\'t see this type of boxes around......Avery niceZionist collectible BEAUTY. A nicely illustrated IMMAGE of TREE PLANTING in ERETZ ISRAEL. The GRAPHIC DESIGN of this exquisite TIN BLUE BOX includes also a MAGEN DAVID ( Shield of David ) EMBLEM with the word ZION written in an OLD CALLIGRAPHY and the official EMBLEM - SIGN - SHIELD OF ARMS of the INDEPENDENT STATE of ISRAEL, The MENORAH . The text explains the issues which the KKL - JNF stands for : REDEEMS and RECLAIMS the LAND of ISRAEL, MAKE the WILDERNESS BLOOM , AFFORESTATION , MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS , WILDFIRE PREVENTION & SUPPRESSION , DAMS and RESERVOIRS , WATER , COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT etc . Reference : BOX number 61 - Page 17 in the CATALOGUE of the KKL - JNF blue boxes. ( Please look hereunder ) . A slot and a round lid on upper face . Can be actually be used for money saving !! Quite exceptional size : 4.5\" x 3\" x 2\" . Very good condition. The surface is ina PERFECTshape, Firm, Vivid and exceptionaly glossy . ( Pls watch the scan for a reliable actual AS IS image ).Will be shipped in a special rigid protective package . AUTHENTICITY : ThisisanORIGINALvintage made in USA Eretz Israel BOX . NOT a recent immitation ,Itholds alife long GUARANTEE forits AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal .SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via expedited insured trackable registered airmailis $17 . Will be shipped in a special rigid protective package. Handling within 3-5 days after payment. Estimated Int\'l duration around 10 days.
The Blue Box For dozens of years, the Blue Box served as a fund raiser in every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Israel and abroad: A cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision of establishing a state for the Jewish people. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was established on December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel. To raise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soon placed a box in his office and sent off a letter to Die Welt, the Zionist newspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly: \"In keeping with the saying, \'bit and bitty fill the kitty\' and following the Congress resolution on KKL\'s founding, I put together an \'Erez Israel box\', stuck the words \'National Fund\' on it and placed it in a prominent spot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, have been astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly all Zionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way.\" The Blue Box: More Than a Fundraising Device The funds raised through the Blue Box (the \"pushke,\" as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeeming the land in Eretz Israel on which the Jewish home was to arise. But the Blue Box was more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was an important educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bond between the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changed form many times over the years, and often wasn\'t even blue. It is a symbol. A symbol of KKL-JNF and its efforts to develop the land of Israel, plant forests, create parks, prepare soil for agriculture and settlement, carve out new roads and build water reservoirs – A symbol of connectedness with the land. For many people, KKL-JNF\'s Blue Box is inseparable from their childhood memories. Blue Boxes were placed in every classroom, into which every Friday small coins were dropped. For several decades the Blue Box raised funds for Environmental goals, though over time its status whittled away until it disappeared from the Israeli scene. The Blue Box was reinstated after the Second Lebanon War. Giant Blue Boxes designed by the finest Israeli artists were exhibited on Tel Aviv\'s Rothschild Boulevard where the public was invited to contribute to rehabilitating Israel\'s northern forests which had been destroyed in the war. Isrotel Hotels also took part in the effort with a large donation and awarded a tree planting certificate to every guest in each of its hotels. The blue charity collection boxes have been distributed by the JNF almost from its beginning. Once found in many Jewish homes, the boxes became one of the most familiar symbols of Zionism. A children\'s song about the boxes, written by Dr. Yehoshua Frizman, Headmaster of the Real Gymnasium for Girls in Kovno, ran The box was invented when a bank clerk named Haim Kleinman in Nadvorna, Galicia placed a blue box labeled \"Keren Le\'umit\" in his office, and suggested that similar boxes be distributed by the Fund. The first mass-produced boxes were distributed in 1904. Kleinman visited Mandate Palestine in the 1930s and planned to make aliyah, but perished in the Holocaust. Menahem Ussishkin wrote that \"The coin the child contributes or collects for the redemption of the land is not important in itself; it is not the child that gives to the Keren Kayemeth, but rather the Fund that gives to the child, a foothold and lofty ideal for all the days of his life.\"The boxes could take a variety of shapes and sizes. Some were paper made to fold flat like envelopes and able to contain only a small number of coins, some early American boxes were cylindrical, some German boxes were made of tin stamped into the shape of bound books. Israel issued postage stamps bearing the image of the blue box in 1983, 1991, and 1993 for the JNF\'s 90th anniversary.