Jella lepman biography of abraham
"Abraham wanted to attend the Berlin academy of music, but they didn't allow Jews like him..
Jella Lepman
Jella Lepman (15 May 1891, in Stuttgart – 4 October 1970, in Zurich) was a German journalist, author and translator who founded the International Youth Library in Munich.[1]
Life
Jella Lehman, born in Stuttgart, was the oldest daughter of the manufacturer Josef Lehmann (1853–1911) and his wife Flora (née Lauchheimer; 1867–1940).
The family were members of the Jewish-liberal Judaism.
This book is definitely on the long side and older, but it's a nice telling of the life of Abraham Lincoln at a child's level.
Through her mother she was a cousin of the four-year younger Max Horkheimer.[2] After her schooling at the Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, she spent a year near Lausanne, Switzerland. At the age of 17, in 1908, she organised an international reading room for the children of foreign works at a tobacco factory in an industrial quarter of Stuttgart.
In 1913 she married Gustav Horace Lepman (1877–1922), the German-American co-owner of a bedspring factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. Together they had two children: (Anne-Marie, born in 1918, Günther, bo