Word: shekels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50? each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim...