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| Title | "Pacific" from the Tzedakah Box series |
| Artist | Tony Berlant |
| Date | 1998 |
| Institution | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
| Location | On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G362 |
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| Medium: | Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects, Judaica | Metal, plywood, steel |
| Size: | 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (20.96 x 20.96 x 16.83 cm) |
| Creation Place: | North America, United States |
| Culture: | North America, United States |
| Style: | 20th century |
| Inscriptions: | Inscription Hebrew inscription, in blue, on top |
| Physical Description: | house-shaped box decorated with fruit motif |
| Credit: | Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The John R. Van Derlip Fund, by exchange |
| Accession Number: | 98.138 |
| Artist: | Tony Berlant, American, born 1941 |
| Role: | Artist |
| Nationality: |
| Life Dates: | American, born 1941 |
| Added to Site: | February 28, 2009 |
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts June 17, 2010
Follow this link to a late 19th- or early 20th-century Danish Tzedakah box in the collection of The Jewish Museum in New York. It includes a nice description of Tzedakah - righteousness or charity - in Jewish tradition.
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8 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (20.96 x 20.96 x 16.83 cm)
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