Jenny Aloni
German author (1917–1993)
Jenny Aloni (Hebrew: יני אלוני; née Jenny Rosenbaum יני רוזנבאום, September 7, 1917 – September 30, 1993) was a German-Israeli author, who is considered one of the most important authors of German-language literature in Israel.
Life
Youth
Jenny Rosenbaum grew up as the youngest of three sisters, the daughter of the merchant Moritz Rosenbaum and his wife Henriette, née Eichengrün, in a Jewish family that had been established in Paderborn for centuries. The father ran a fur and scrap metal business with his brother Sally in the family home. She attended the Catholic Lyceum St. Michaels-Kloster in Paderborn, a girls' school run by Augustinian choir women, from 1924 to the eleventh grade in 1935.
Due to the increasing antisemitic hostility, she became intensively involved with Zionism from 1933 onwards and decided, against her parents' wishes, to drop out of school and emigrate to Palestine. In 1935, to prepare for her emigration to Palestine, she was at the Hakhshara training center Gut Winkel near Spreenhagen, where she, among other things, Learned to grow fruit and vegetables.
Berlin
Out of consideration for her parents, she stopped planning to emigrate and from 1936 attended the school of the Israelite Synagogue Community Adass Yisroel in Berlin until she graduated from high school. She made contacts with socialist groups within the Zionist movement and learned Hebrew and Arabic. In 1939 she graduated from high school and worked as a group leader in a Hakhshara camp in Świbinki (German name: Schniebinchen), in Lower Lusatia.
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