The article is focused on the involvement of Kraków’s lodge B’nei B’rith (Solidarity)
in local Jewish musical life in the interwar period. On the basis of information contained in
documents preserved in State Archive in Kraków we may conclude that the activity of the most
outstanding Jewish musical institutions would not have been possible without financial support
of Solidarity. However, it seems to be the expectation of the lodge that all musicians and groups
supported by B’nei B’rith had to derive from the environment of the progressive Jews and were
also involved in the promotion of the new ‘Hebrew music’. There are no doubts that both of these
features of the lodge Solidarity’s activity had a profound influence on the shape of Jewish musical
life in the interwar Kraków
keywords in English:
Jewish musical life, the B’nei B’rith lodge, Kraków, XX century