Month: September 2020

קרן קימת לישראל ספר הילד כרך א

Like the Golden Books, the Children’s Book is a record of donors to the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, The Jewish National Fund. It was devised to honor the milestones of children, like birth and bar or bat mitzvah. This first volume is basically a wooden box which contains pages stacked on large wooden pegs.

קרן קימת לישראל ספר הילד כרך א

“In 1933, KKL-JNF decided to create a special volume known as ‘The Children’s Book’, in which people inscribed the names of children who were just born or were celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah, often including a photograph of the child being honored. Sadly, this book became extremely important after the Holocaust, since many children who perished could be identified thanks to their having been inscribed in the book.”¹From the website of the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael —Efrat Benebenisti

View of the back of the Children’s Book, made for the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, The Jewish National Fund.