Jenny Asch

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Jenny Asch (born July 18, 1832 in Breslau ; † April 1, 1907 there ) was a German painter , philanthropist and Froebel educator .

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Her parents were the furniture and antiques dealer, parquet factory and brickworks owner Albert Bauer and his wife Fanny Bauer, nee. Eagle. Jenny still had five siblings. Her brother Wilhelm and her sister Clara died at a young age. One of her older sisters was Lina Morgenstern .

The arts were cultivated in the Bauer family:

“All of the daughters received home tuition in music, Jenny was already dreaming of a career as a singer. But unfortunately one day she noticed that she couldn't turn her soprano higher and that her vocal cords were on strike. "

On February 28, 1855, Jenny Bauer married the physician and later city councilor Sigismund Asch (1825–1901) in the synagogue of Breslau. In January 1856 the young couple suffered a severe blow of fate, a stillbirth . The happy marriage resulted in three more children, one of whom, Betty, converted to Protestantism at the age of fourteen . In 1861 Jenny Asch and three other women founded the “Breslau Kindergarten Association”, which she directed for 40 years. In this function she campaigned, albeit in vain, for the integration of the kindergarten into the public school system. In 1897 the advocate of Froebel education published a German-language report on the Instituto Froebeliano founded by Julie Salis-Schwabe in Naples . In it she described the connection that she missed on German soil, between two kindergartens (one free public kindergarten, the other a "fee kindergarten"), elementary school, grammar school classes (which girls can also attend), higher girls' school and Froebelschen - Kindergarten teacher seminar.

Jenny Asch was also one of the vice-presidents of the Ligue des femmes pour le désarmement international in Germany ... for the peace movement. Together with her sister Anna Honigmann, who worked on the board of the industrial school for Israelite girls in Breslau, she was also an assessor in the Pfennig Association. As promoter of Froebel's kindergarten, she was an honorary member of the German Froebel Association appointed.

In addition to her social commitment, Jenny Asch was an active painter and draftsman .

Works (selection)

• Application regarding the classification of the kindergarten in the school . In: The teacher in school and home , 1897/98, pp. 426–429, digitized at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
• A Froebel educational institution in Naples (Instituto Froebliano Vittorio Emanuelle II). Wroclaw 1897
• Travel notes about Froebel institutions in Holland and France . In: Kindergarten , 1901, pp. 73–79
• Commemorative words on the 50th anniversary of Fr. Froebel's death . In: General Kindergarten Association , 1902, pp. 14-16
• Kindergarten teacher and teacher . In: Kindergarten , 1903, pp. 5-7
• More than what is happening now, how can one conduct developing education in the first year of school? In: Kindergarten , 104, pp. 66–72
• Housekeeping schools and Froebel . In: Kindergarten , 1906, pp. 81–86
• One more word about Henriette Goldschmidt's revision of the mother and co-songs . In: Kindergarten , 1905, pp. 229–230

literature

• Irmgard Maya Fassmann: Jewish women in the German women's movement 1865-1919 . Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1996
• Diana Franke-Meyer: Raising small children and kindergarten in a historical process. Your role in the field of tension between education policy, family and school . Bad Heilbrunn 2011
• Dagmar Nick : Jewish work in Breslau. Recollected memory: Old Asch and the farmers . Wuerzburg 1998
• Fritz Stern : Five Germany and one life. Memories . Munich 2007
• Dagmar Nick : Captured shadows. My Jewish family book . Munich 2015

Web links

• nifbe.de Detailed biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nick 1998, p. 35 f.
2. ↑ 79th Annual Report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture (1901), Nekrologe, pp. 1–5.
3. ↑ Stern 2007, p. 28
4. ↑ Franke-Meyer 2011, p. 167
5. ↑ Fassmann 1996, p. 182 f.