Founded:

1843

(from Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרִית, romanized: b'né brit, lit. 'Children of the Covenant') is a Jewish organization. It was founded in New York in 1843 as a secret lodge by twelve Jewish immigrants from Germany and today has around 500,000 organized members in around 60 countries.

Mentioned in

• From Hamburg out into the World—Jewish Emigration and the Aid Organization of German Jews (David Hamann)
• Organizations and Institutions (Rainer Liedtke)
• Speech by Gustav Tuch, President of the Henry Jones Lodge, in: The Meeting Hall in Hamburg. Publication Commemorating Its Inauguration. Sunday, August 28, 1904, pp. 25-30 [Excerpt]
• The Committee of the Henry Jones Lodge for Jewish Folklore, Invitation and Questionnaire, Hamburg 1896
• The First Ethnographic Questionnaire in Jewish Folklore-Studies, Sammlungen zur jüdischen Volkskunde, published Hamburg, November 1896 (Dani Schrire)
• The Founding of the Jewish Library and Reading Room (Alice Jankowski)
• The Henry Jones Lodge. Jewish Self-confidence and the Path into the Modern Age (Rebekka Großmann)