Siegfried Lehman
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Siegfried Lehmann | |
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Born |
Berlin, Germany | 4 January 1892
Died | 13 February 1958 66) | (aged
Siegfried Lehmann (Hebrew: זיגפריד להמן) (born 4 January 1892;[1] died 13 June 1958[2]) was an Israeli educator and founder and director of the Ben Shemen Youth Village.
Biography
Lehmann was born in Berlin, Germany in 1892. After serving as a doctor in the German Army during World War I, he founded a Jewish orphanage in Berlin in 1916, and opened a shelter for Jewish war orphans in Kaunas in 1919. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine, now Israel, and founded the Ben Shemen Youth Village, a large agricultural boarding school, situated adjacent to the moshav in Ben Shemen.
Awards
- In 1957, Lehmann was awarded the Israel Prize in education.[3]
References
See also
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Chazon Umoreshet, Biography by Aya Lehman Schlair in Hebrew,2010
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