Dan Lodge No. 593, B’nai B’rith Records

   
   

Inventory

    
   

 

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A.

Membership/Officers Rosters (1940,1942): List of officers from all Southeastern B’nai B’rith lodges(1940); list of Dan Lodge Officers, Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee (1940); list of Dan Lodge members, addresses and telephone numbers (1940); list of Dan Lodge Officer and Trustee nominations (1942)

  

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B.

Meeting Minutes (1938-1942): Includes Annual Report of Financial Secretary,1938; also the following typed minutes:

  1. Minutes of meeting, Sept. 8, 1940:
  2. Minutes of meeting, Jan. 12, 1941:
  3. Minutes of meeting, Feb. 5, 1941:
  4. Minutes of meeting, March 23, 1941:
  5. Minutes of meeting April 27, 1941:
  6. Minutes of meeting, Sept. 14, 1941:
  7. Minutes of meeting, Oct. 19, 1941:
  8. Minutes of meeting, Nov. 18, 1941:
  9. Minutes of meeting, Dec. 14, 1941:
  10. Minutes of meeting, Feb. 8, 1942:

All minutes contain synopsis of committee reports, financial matters, charitable contributions, volunteer projects and social events; other topics include Lodge 593’s participation in alien registration and refugee aid; work with local Aleph Zadik Aleph chapter; plans for state conference in Charleston; installation of new officers; work with Boy Scouts of America; work of the Anti-Defamation League; establishment of the Samuel D. Turtletaub Post of Jewish War Veterans; re. Jewish soldiers at Camp Jackson and participation in civilian defense and other war related activities.

  

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C.

Correspondence (1940-1942): typescripts include rough copies and final drafts; includes fundraising letters; correspondence from the president to officers; meeting announcements; letters to members who did not regularly attend meetings urging them to do so; convention and committee meeting announcements; notices of resolutions passed; announcements of speakers and matters pertaining to "Jewish Welfare"; correspondence re. Jewish activity in national defense efforts.

  

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D.

Misc.: pamphlet, "War Service Fund of B’nai B’rith, Procedure for B’nai B’rith Units" (1942); pamphlet, "Rallies for Victory Program Material" published by the War Service Department of B’nai B’rith (1942)

  

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