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For years, Jella Lepman and the International Youth Library she founded in Munich received financial support from the U.S. Rockefeller Foundation. Until now, research on Lepman has not considered the extensive collection of files on the „International Youth Library“ kept at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York City. Based on an excerpt from this collection, this article recollects the founding history of the International Youth Library, paying particular attention to the perspective of the Rockefeller Foundation. On the one hand, it shows that the funding relationship was not as straightforward as Lepman’s descriptions in her memoir Die Kinderbuchbrücke might suggest. On the other hand, it becomes clear that the Rockefeller Foundation’s support for the children’s library was only conceivable in the context of the U.S. democratization mission of reeducation. At the end of the 1940s, the European Rehabilitation Program provided the foundation with the framework to support a children’s and youth literature library project in Munich with a grant.

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„So sahen die amerikanischen Humanisten aus!“ Die Rolle der Rockefeller Foundation in der Gründungsgeschichte von Jella Lepmans Internationaler Jugendbibliothek in München (1947–1949)

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    2026年

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  • Niklas Gödde

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For years, Jella Lepman and the International Youth Library she founded in Munich received financial support from the U.S. Rockefeller Foundation. Until now, research on Lepman has not considered the extensive collection of files on the „International Youth Library“ kept at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York City. Based on an excerpt from this collection, this article recollects the founding history of the International Youth Library, paying particular attention to the perspective of the Rockefeller Foundation. On the one hand, it shows that the funding relationship was not as straightforward as Lepman’s descriptions in her memoir Die Kinderbuchbrücke might suggest. On the other hand, it becomes clear that the Rockefeller Foundation’s support for the children’s library was only conceivable in the context of the U.S. democratization mission of reeducation. At the end of the 1940s, the European Rehabilitation Program provided the foundation with the framework to support a children’s and youth literature library project in Munich with a grant.