„Na ratunek dzieciom” – ochronka przy lubelskim Związku Kobiet Żydowskich w świetle lubelskiej prasy jidysz z okresu międzywojennego

Abstract

Previous research regarding the culture and history of the Jewish community in Lublin in the interwar period only to a small extent covered issues related to the nurseries for Jewish children. Since little archival documentary material is available, texts published in Lublin’s Yiddish press in the 1920s and 1930s serve as a valuable source. The article discusses particular aspects regarding the nursery run by the Zionist Association of Jewish Women which had its headquarters at 41 Krawiecka Street, in the middle of the Podzamcze Jewish district of Lublin. Analyzing articles written by Bela Dobrzyńska, a local Zionist activist who was also a co-founder of the nursery, as well as other texts, the author discusses issues regarding educational work carried out by this institution. A broader interpretative and comparative context for the analysis is provided by press articles regarding the orphanage for Jewish children at 11 Grodzka Street run by the Jewish community, as well as by studies on pedagogical ideas developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.