Jewish Art Community (Stuttgart)

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  • The Stuttgart Jüdische Kunstgemeinschaft was founded in 1933 as a department of the Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Stuttgart by the musicologist Karl Adler . His brother-in-law Leopold Marx, a writer, and Otto Hirsch, a lawyer, were also involved in its founding.
  • It only existed for five years from 1933 to 1938, before the November pogroms put an end to Jewish cultural work in Stuttgart.

International reading room for children, organized by Jella Lepman, née Lehmann

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At the age of 17, Jella Lepman, née Lehmann, organized an international reading room for the children of foreign workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory here in 1908.

Her passion for children's and young people's literature lasted a lifetime. In 1949, she co-founded and initiated the International Youth Library in Munich.