THE FOUNDING AND EARLY HISTORY OF
THE B’NAI B’RITH GIRLS
TIMELINE
In , a prominent Jewish organization called B’nai
B’rith adopted the Aleph Zadik Aleph () as its auxiliary program for young men. Efforts began immediately to launch a program for Jewish young women that
would serve as a sister to in the B’nai B’rith family.
New groups emerged as early as in Seattle, Washington and in Newark, New Jersey; unfortunately,
these groups dissolved quickly.
However, the movement was not defeated. Efforts to
create a sisterhood for Jewish young women continued.
Rose Mauser organized the first permanent chapter
of what is now in December of in San Francisco, California. Mattie Olcovich and Essie Solomon
served as the first advisors. Unlike ,
which began in Omaha in and
then spread to become an International
Order, chapters of girls sprung up
throughout the United States and
Canada in response to spontaneous
local forces, but without any central
1923
So many important events
and occurrences have
happened since 1924 that
a timeline structure is
perhaps the best way to
understand the gradual
development of the BBG
program into what it is today.
The first chapter of the Aleph
Zadik Aleph (AZA) is formed
in Omaha, Nebraska.
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