Educational Footnotes

November 21, 2007 - 12:30 PM by Stephanie

There’s an opportunity for learning in EVERYTHING you do. Really.

Just ask Lisa over at On The Face. She was minding her own business at her local cafe hangout when she happened to notice that the sugar packets on the table bore images of/historical tidbits about some of Israel’s key founding fathers/mothers.

I nicked these sugar packets from Ginzburg, my local cafe. I call it Zionist sugar because each packet displays the portrait of some historical figure who was connected to the building of the state, with a brief bio blurb on the reverse side. There are lots more (I didn’t want to be greedy, so I only took a few), featuring a wide range of writers, scientists, philanthropists and political activists. All are portrayed as idealists who were committed to the betterment of society. Well, there’s not much room for historical nuance on a sugar packet….or readers who don’t know Hebrew, the names are as follows:

Top row, l to r: David Ben Gurion, Joseph Trumpeldor, Theodore Herzl, Ahad Ha’am (pen name of Asher Ginzburg).
Bottom row, l to r: Eliyahu David Badash, Zeev Jabotinsky, Henrietta Szold and Moses Montefiore.

Hop on over to Lisa’s site and you’ll get some background info on the names behind the faces and a roundup of news, blogs and a whole mess of other assorted sundries.

Double shot of espresso, hold the foam.

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