Bnei Jacob Beacon No. 25 of the Order of Ancient Maccabeans
Foundation
Collins records that the Bnei Jacob Independent Benefit Society became the third Glasgow Beacon of the Order of Ancient Maccabeans in August 1912.[1] It followed the Judas Maccabeus Beacon No. 15 Order of Ancient Maccabeans and the Leo Pinsker Beacon No. 12 Order of Ancient Maccabeans. A Ladies’ Beacon of the Order was formed in November 1913.[2]
Initiation, August 1912
The Beacon was inaugurated on Sunday 4 August 1912, when 80 members of the former Bnei Jacob Independent Benefit Society were initiated. Officers of the Grand Council of the Order came from London for the occasion, and officers of the Judas Maccabeus, Leo Pinsker and Mount Moriah (Edinburgh) Beacons attended, together with delegates from Leeds and Newcastle. The officers installed were:[3]
- D. Goldberg – Commander
- M. Goldfish – Deputy Commander
- S. Chiteur – Treasurer
- H. Goldfish – Secretary
Afterwards D. Goldberg chaired a public meeting at the Brassfinishers' Hall, addressed by D. Halpern and S. Harris. This was followed by a supper at the Maccabean Hall, Govan, at which a collection was taken for the Jewish National Fund. A conference of the four Scottish Beacons then established a District Council for Scotland, with S. Schiaelsen as chairman, A. Bolstone of Edinburgh as deputy chairman and B. Haiman as honorary secretary.[4] A Ladies' Branch of 65 members was also formed, with Miss B. Ramsay of 161 Govan Street as honorary secretary.[3]
The same issue reported from Glasgow that the local Order of Ancient Maccabeans had started a society for lectures, debates and transactions conducted entirely in Hebrew.[5]
Timeline
- 1926 - Mr. I. Samunov, the Treasurer of the Central Office for Great Britain, visited Glasgow on Sunday. In the morning he addressed a conjoint meeting of the Jehuda Maccabee, Leo Pinsker, and Bnei Jacob, Beacons of the Order of Ancient Maccabeans. The respective Commanders pledged the support of their Beacons for National Fund work, and a number of volunteers were enrolled. Mr. Schenkin, the Chairman of the Glasgow Zionist Central Council also spoke. Thanks were accorded to Mr. Samunov on the motion of Mr. Shafter, supported by Mr. Balkind.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Kenneth E. Collins, Second City Jewry: The Jews of Glasgow in the Age of Expansion, 1790–1919 (Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Committee, 1990), p. 129, n. 68. Collins's endnotes 67–68 (p. 242) print the Jewish Chronicle dates as 2/12/1912 and 9/12/1912; both items in fact appeared in Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1912, p. 21.
- ↑ Collins, Second City Jewry, p. 129, n. 69, citing Jewish Chronicle, 26 December 1913 (cited in Collins).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1912, p. 21.
- ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1912, p. 21. The spellings of the District Council officers' names are uncertain in the printed text.
- ↑ Collins, Second City Jewry, p. 129, n. 67; Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1912, p. 21 (Collins's endnote prints 2/12/1912).
- ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 30 April 1926, p. 26.