Freemasonry began admitting Jews as members in the mid-eighteenth century, first in England and then later in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and other countries. Nevertheless, European Freemasons tended to be ambivalent about who they allowed to join their organization.
Encyclopedia Judaica,1971 Vol. 10, p. 23: "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860".
“The Grand Lodge Masonry of the present day is wholly Jewish.”
—“Manual of Freemasonry” by Richard Carlile, 1825