The District Grand Lodge No. 10 of B’nai B’rith, 1889-1939 (1951)
The District Grand Lodge No. 10 of B’nai B’rith, 1889-1939 (1951)

Summary/Abstract: This article is a revision of the MA diploma thesis: Velkolóže B’nai B’rith v 10. Distriktu, 1889–1939 (1951) [The Grand Lodge of B’nai B’rith in the 10th District, 1889–1939], Prague, 2003, undertaken under the guidance of Associate Professor Jiřina Šedinová, CSc. at the Institute of Near Eastern. In the course of the nineteenth century, the mainstream Jewish community in the United States lost its original Orthodox character and the Reform movement came into being. The community witnessed a growing need for Jewish organizations, societies and movements that would maintain their Jewish character and develop Jewish solidarity and a strong awareness of group solidarity, without being defined in a religious way. It was amid this atmosphere of transformation that B’nai B’rith was founded. (transl. S. Hattersley)

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