Великая ложа Германии еврейского ордена"Бней-Бри" (УОББ) (г. Берлин)

Великая ложа Германии еврейского ордена"Бней-Бри" (УОББ) (г. Берлин) 

The Independent Order of B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant) was established in New York in 1843 by a group of German-origin Jews headed by Henry Jones. B'nai B'rith was established to help raise the moral, spiritual, and social level of Jews, espousing philanthropy, charity, and fraternity. The order was free of any particular political or religious ideology. The German Grand Lodge sponsored various social welfare programs. It financed nursing courses and the Association of Jewish Nurses (1900-1930); it founded a Jewish orphanage and a school for retarded children in Berlin (1907-30), an employment agency (established 1910), and a cultural fund (1920) that supported educational institutions. The German Grand Lodge helped establish and finance the Union of Jewish Youth Associations in Germany in 1909, and it published the youth journal Wegweiser fir die Jugendliteratur (1905-14), as well as numerous books and pamphlets for youth. Only men could be full members of the Grand Lodge; women's auxiliary lodges were established beginning in 1897. The German Grand Lodge's monthly organ Bericht der Grossloge fur Deutschland was first published in 1891, and was soon renamed Der Orden Bne Briss: Mitteilungen der Grossloge fur Deutschland VIII. On the eve of the Nazi assumption of power in 1933, Germany had 103 lodges of B'nai B'rith with 13,000 members. B'nai B'rith was banned by the Nazi authorities in April 1937, and its assets were confiscated. 

Великая ложа Германии еврейского ордена"Бней-Бри" (УОББ) (г. Берлин)