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- The halukka, also spelled haluka, halukkah or chalukah (Hebrew: חלוקה, meaning distribution) was an organized collection and distribution of charity funds...
- was no authority strong enough to enforce a centralized collection of ḥalukkah funds. In Jewish tradition, going back to ancient times, the only city...
- administered commerce, hygiene, sanitation, charity (cf. tzedakah, mitzvot, halukkah), Jewish education, application of dietary laws (kashrut), and relations...
- merchant and community worker. Lehren was prominent in the history of the Ḥaluḳḳah in the first half of the nineteenth century. Beginning with 1810, he, as...
- ISBN 978-0-253-03865-4. Yaari 1946, p. 609. Bloom, Cecil (1999). "The institution of halukkah: a historical review". Jewish Historical Studies. 36: 1–30. ISSN 0962-9696...
- literary dispute of his brother Hirsch concerning the administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah (see Fürst in Der Orient, 1844, p. 17). He died in Amsterdam on 19 November...
- Jerusalem, whom Frumkin constantly denounced for the lack of reform in the "halukkah" system. Eventually, however, he became reconciled to the management. In...
- traditional distribution system of charity funds coming from abroad, the halukkah. They were again active among those who established in 1884 the Ezrat Niddaḥim...
- distribution of charity funds collected in Europe for the Old Yishuv (Halukkah). The bank's clientele expanded along with its services, to include consulates...
- active part in the general attack on the Amsterdam administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah in 1843-44, which was especially directed against Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam...