Siegfried Lehman

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Siegfried Lehmann
Born (1892-01-04)4 January 1892
Berlin, Germany
Died 13 February 1958(1958-02-13) (aged 66)

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

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/tidhar/view/10/3499 (in Hebrew)
  2. ↑ http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/tidhar/view/10/3501 (in Hebrew)
  3. ↑ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1957 (in Hebrew)". 

See also

Authority control


Chazon Umoreshet, Biography by Aya Lehman Schlair in Hebrew,2010

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