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Join us for Exile Season 5 – a new set of 8 powerful stories illuminating Jewish lives shaped by the rise of fascism, uncovered from the Leo Baeck Institute’s archive.Thank you @Joshua Malina for giving these stories a voice and bringing history to life.
🎧️ Starting February 24, episodes are released every Tuesday - wherever you listen to podcasts.
The Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews.
📸 Leo Baeck Collection AR 66
Episode 31: Leo Baeck Part 1: The Soft-Spoken Sage
Episode 32: Leo Baeck Part 2: The Teacher of Theresienstadt
📸 Manfred George Collection AR 2233
Episode 27: Manfred George’s Aufbau: Reconstructing the News
📸 Hedy Lamarr - 1940. Bild: MGM / Clarence Bull, Public domain
Episode 26: Hedy Lamarr: Beauty and Brains
📸 Lion Feuchtwanger, Los Angeles, CA. Date unknown. Leo Baeck Institute.
Episode 30: Lion Feuchtwanger: From Moscow to Hollywood
Season 5 is made possible in part by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (@claims_conference), which is supported by the German Federal Miniltry of Finance (@bundesfinanzministerium) and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future @evzfoundation.
Antica Productions is an award-winning production company based in Toronto that believes in the power of purpose-driven storytelling to change the world. @anticaproductions
#exile #podcast #HistoryUncovered #GermanJewry #NeverForget #LearnFromHistory #jewishhistory #leobaeckinstitute #HistoryMatters #HiddenHistories #PreservingThePast #archive #JewishHeritage #podcast #podcaster #podcasting #podcastshow #podcastclips
Join us for Exile Season 5 – a new set of 8 powerful stories illuminating Jewish lives shaped by the rise of fascism, uncovered from the Leo Baeck Institute’s archive.Thank you @Joshua Malina for giving these stories a voice and bringing history to life.
🎧️ Starting February 24, episodes are released every Tuesday - wherever you listen to podcasts.
The Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews.
📸 Leo Baeck Collection AR 66
Episode 31: Leo Baeck Part 1: The Soft-Spoken Sage
Episode 32: Leo Baeck Part 2: The Teacher of Theresienstadt
📸 Manfred George Collection AR 2233
Episode 27: Manfred George’s Aufbau: Reconstructing the News
📸 Hedy Lamarr - 1940. Bild: MGM / Clarence Bull, Public domain
Episode 26: Hedy Lamarr: Beauty and Brains
📸 Lion Feuchtwanger, Los Angeles, CA. Date unknown. Leo Baeck Institute.
Episode 30: Lion Feuchtwanger: From Moscow to Hollywood
Season 5 is made possible in part by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (@claims_conference), which is supported by the German Federal Miniltry of Finance (@bundesfinanzministerium) and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future @evzfoundation.
Antica Productions is an award-winning production company based in Toronto that believes in the power of purpose-driven storytelling to change the world. @anticaproductions
#exile #podcast #HistoryUncovered #GermanJewry #NeverForget #LearnFromHistory #jewishhistory #leobaeckinstitute #HistoryMatters #HiddenHistories #PreservingThePast #archive #JewishHeritage #podcast #podcaster #podcasting #podcastshow #podcastclips






![Hebrew Children’s Literature & the Jewish Enlightenment | Part 3
Did you know that Jewish children in the 19th century often learned moral lessons through fables? One remarkable example is Mashal u-Melitsa, a collection of Hebrew fables published in 1860 by Moritz Steinschneider.
These stories blended Enlightenment ideals with traditional Jewish teaching. Like their European peers, Jewish children were encouraged to learn honesty, discipline, and civic values — but here, the lessons were conveyed in Hebrew, keeping the language alive while reshaping it into a modern educational tool.
The rise of Hebrew children’s literature reflected a major cultural shift: not only were Jewish writers adapting European genres like fables and moral tales, but they were also creating a Jewish Enlightenment curriculum in both Hebrew and German. This dual approach showed how Jewish education evolved — balancing tradition with modernity.
In the next episode, we’ll explore how Jewish children’s books of the late 19th century — like Eugenie Werthauer’s Freitagabend und andere Erzählungen — began reflecting middle-class family life and the realities of integration into German society.
📖 Mashal u-Melitsa : a collection of fables and parables for the use of Jewish youth in the Eastern countries by Moritz Steinschneider. Fables were popular texts for childrens books during the Enlightenment. Berlin : Adolf Fridlender, [1860]. LBI Library, r 1199.
🌍 An illustration from Metsiat ha-arets ha-hadashah, the Hebrew a of Joachim Campes The Discovery of America. . Joachim Campes works were frequently translated for Jewish children because of their usefulness in conveying Englightenment values. Altona, 1807. LBI Library, r 1175.
🔗 Visit our website to read more about how fables and moral lessons shaped Jewish children’s books — https://www.lbi.org/collections/childlit/inventing-part-one/
🖼️ Portrait of a young boy on a tricycle, approximately 1900. LBI Photos, F 1966B
🖼️ Portrait of Albert, Philippine and Hanne Stargardt, 1893. By the late 1800, Part of: Anneliese Riess Collection, AR 10019. LBI Photos, F 84494.
#JewishHistory #ChildrensBooks #HebrewLiterature #Haskalah #LeoBaeckInstitute #JewishHistory Hebrew Children’s Literature & the Jewish Enlightenment | Part 3](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sMU_pWyG5rE/mqdefault.jpg)



