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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]
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Gustav Tuch
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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The source presented here is a speech by Gustav Tuch, president of
Hamburg's Henry-Jones-Lodge, given at the opening ceremony of the new
meeting hall of Hamburg's B'nai B'rith (“Sons of the Covenant”)
chapter on August 28, 1904. The speech is included in a 58-page
Festschrift, a publication commemorating the meeting hall's opening.
In addition to Tuch's speech, the publication features those of the
other speakers as well as memories of the groundbreaking and the
banquet that was part of the opening ceremony. It closes with a list
of the donors who made the construction of the new building possible.
Thus the commemorative publication is part of a public demonstration
of the Hamburg lodge's rise from a small membership of 38 in 1887, as
the introduction mentions, to the opening of its own facility 17 years
later. Tuch's speech combines the pride at the meeting hall's opening
with a call to his lodge brothers to participate in B'nai B'rith
activities. In doing so, Tuch also makes reference to the B'nai B'rith
mission and the roots of the self-image of its German-based Jewish
members.
2017-10-23