chalukahn.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 686/2 Annual contributions (haluka) amounting to about £50,000 a year.

1920 19th Cent. Oct. 627 Fear has been expressed that Jewry in Palestine.. will degenerate into a new form of ‘Chalukah’.

1923 W. P. Livingstone Galilee Doctor 48 The Jew who followed his native genius, engaged in commerce, and made a success of it, was independent of the khalukah.

1927 Scots Observer 9 Apr. 8/3 This class has not increased owing to the failure of the Haluka by which it was supported.

1941 Universal Jewish Encycl. V. 188/2 In..the 1930's and 1940's, the collections dwindled away... The Halukkah had been replaced..by contributions through Zionist organizations.

1944 M. Hadas tr. I. Elbogen Cent. Jewish Life iii. i. 246 A system of distributing alms to the various national groups (kolelim)..was elaborated and given the name Halukkah.

1944 M. Hadas tr. I. Elbogen Cent. Jewish Life iii. i. 250 He also worked for the education of girls and for freeing the Jewish population from the scourge of the Halukkah.

1944 M. Hadas tr. I. Elbogen Cent. Jewish Life iii. i. 251 The Halukkah used its power to penalize parents who sent their children to the modern schools and to hinder any progress in making them productive.

1957 S. W. Baron Social & Relig. Hist. Jews (ed. 2) V. xxiii. 37 The..‘Babylonian’ congregation..demanded independent control over the distribution of charitable funds..for the poor of the Holy Land. It thus adumbrated the nineteenth-century struggles over the distribution of ḥaluqqah funds raised in the various countries of the dispersion.

1962 D. Bridger & S. Wolk New Jewish Encycl. 185/2 Ḥalukkah..began in olden times and continued until replaced by modern fund~raising.

1970 New Stand. Jewish Encycl. 831/1 Halukkah, the distribution of collections made abroad for the support of the poor in Palestine. ‘H. Jews’ were those living on such contributions.