The Menorah. A Monthly Magazine. Official Organ of the B’ne B’rith. Edited by Benjamin Franklin Peixotto.

Initial five volumes of the B’nai B’rith’s first periodical. The founding editor Benjamin Franklin Peixotto (1834-90) was the highest ranking official in B’nai B’rith who famously served as consul-general to Rumania by appointment of President Ulysses Grant. In this capacity he was tremendously active in seeking to reduce outbreaks of anti-Semitism in that country. Upon his return to America he was received with much honor and invited to deliver many addresses in various sections of the country. He subsequently aided in forming the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and was influential in assisting several Jewish charitable bodies in his hometown of New York as well as elsewhere across the United States.